{"id":35718,"date":"2026-08-01T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35718"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:27:35","slug":"bees-evicted-from-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35718","title":{"rendered":"Bees Evicted from Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026073101c.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWalking past Cosener&#8217;s House on Wednesday, I saw six people dressed in beekeeping suits. Two of them were\u00a0 on scaffold. They were working beside a hole in the side wall of a building while bees flew around them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026073101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe team must have dismantled part of the wall to remove a colony of bees. Along with the bees, they removed some large pieces of honeycomb in large plastic boxes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026073101b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI was told there were three boxes of comb like the one pictured. The bees must have been there for a long time to have produced so much honey.<\/p>\n<p>Once the bees and honeycomb had been removed, the wall was rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>As I was taking photographs, a man driving past remarked, &#8220;That&#8217;s not something you see every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following day, bees were still flying around the rebuilt wall. By today, however, there were fewer signs of the bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking past Cosener&#8217;s House on Wednesday, I saw six people dressed in beekeeping suits. Two of them were\u00a0 on scaffold. They were working beside a hole in the side wall of a building while bees flew around them. The team must have dismantled part of the wall to remove a colony of bees. Along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}