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stay in its location for a few hours before moving off. Most swarms occur
on warm sunny days usually during early spring, May to the end of July,
between 11am 3 4pm, depending upon the weather.
When these bees take flight,
they
have
gorged
themselves on honey and
are very unlikely to sting, as
their focus is to find a new
home and make sure the
queen finds her way there
safely. During this flight
scout bees will go off to try
to find a suitable location.
This is the time at which you
may come across a swarm
Swarm in a cluster within a tree Nicola Spreckley
and beekeeper will remove
this and place them into a hive. If you find a swarm, please contact Alban
Smith Brindle on 07919 843546 and we will come and remove the
honeybees. We will ask a few questions about the location of the swarm,
so please do take a photo and if possible, a 8what 3 words9 location.
VJ Day
Andrew Murison
The British Empire and Commonwealth became directly engaged in the war
with Japan on the same day as the assault on Pearl Harbour, 7 December
1941. Malaya, Singapore and Burma were first in the firing line. Three and
a half years of vicious and relentless campaigning in horrifying conditions
were to follow before the Southeast Asia Command and Britain9s
8Forgotten9 14th Army became key to Japan9s surrender on 15 August 1945.
For those three and a half years, the war in the Far East constituted the
longest period of continuous, unbroken, often hand-to-hand, fighting by
British and Imperial forces anywhere during the second world war. The
battle of Kohima-Imphal of June 1942, which put an end to the Japanese
incursions into India, and turned the tide in the battle for Burma, was
recently deemed to be Britain9s Greatest Battle of all time, dismissing DDay and Waterloo as also-rans despite their epochal significance.
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