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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 14:54:46 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   Not exactly what I expected to find in my apartment balcony today 😅

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 16:02:41 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Paul Jewell

     @paul_j @littlescraps will they fly away on their own?

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     Paul Jewell (paul_j@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 16:02:44 JST Paul Jewell

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     • LittleScrapsoftheNorth

     @littlescraps @liztai this is a swarm - a normal part of the lifecycle of a healthy colony. The queen and roughly half of the bees leave the hive and resources and look for a new home, leaving a new queen larva and the non- flying (young) bees in the hive to prosper. If you havent already done so, conact a beekeeper - they'll take the swarm away for you.

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     LittleScrapsoftheNorth (littlescraps@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 16:02:45 JST LittleScrapsoftheNorth

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     @liztai why are they doing that? Are they making a nest like wasps do?

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     Anita Lewis (ajlewis2@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 20:31:25 JST Anita Lewis

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     @liztai

     Bookmarked this to follow the story! I read something about this recently and had no concept of what it looked like. Wow!!

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 20:31:25 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Anita Lewis

     @ajlewis2 I hope the story ends uneventfully 😅

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     Paul Jewell (paul_j@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:07:37 JST Paul Jewell

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     • LittleScrapsoftheNorth

     @liztai

     @littlescraps they might, if they can find a suitable home. Here in the UK, there aren't so many possibilities, and they can struggle. If you can, call a beekeeper - they will thank you for it!