I seem to be in a "hot spot" for swarms, and I have to be very careful with any equipment, wax, honey, bee equipment, kit, hives, or anything related to bees, which has "bee scent"....
or I end up with bees everywhere!
if you think that's interesting....and spooky....
X-FILES or Twilight Zone Bee related Story....
Unknown to me, a beekeeper once lived in this parish and house, in the 50s-60s, he has long since died, many many years ago....
an old woman purchased some honey from me two years ago, and is a regular now, came to my door two years ago and asked if I was the Mr Patterson's grandson......selling honey again.....(she saw the sign!), asked why I'd stopped...
I thought she was batty.....
She told me, she always bought her honey from the cottage, and he Mr Patterson had bees in the garden, just there, where my hives were...she was surprised I was not related in any way....and only purchased the house 10 years ago
She then told me that the "Bee's had returned to village, and these were his Bees!"
Speaking to older local residences, they also find it spooky, that the Bees and Beekeeper have returned to the village in the same house....., when I asked them who Mr Patterson was, and they said, oh, the old Beekeeper, that lived in your house in the 50s!....
