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 #4589  by Chrisbarlow
 22 Aug 2019, 20:53
A giant hive was removed from a woman's house in Brisbane, Australia.

The ten-month-old hive weighed 50kg and was holding 60,000 bees.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-49431167/huge-beehive-discovered-inside-ceiling
 #4590  by Patrick
 22 Aug 2019, 23:01
Thats a fair old cut out..

Incidentally, why does my pedantic mind find it so disproportionately irritating when wild or feral colonies of bees are referred to as hives? A hive is not the collective noun of bees, its the human made container they are sometimes kept in. I strongly doubt the Australian lady considered her house as a huge hive.

I passed a bungalow of people today looking at a field being grazed by barns of cows. :roll:
 #4592  by Chrisbarlow
 23 Aug 2019, 09:17
Patrick wrote:
22 Aug 2019, 23:01

I passed a bungalow of people today looking at a field being grazed by barns of cows. :roll:
Lmao. Very true Patrick