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This is the story of a ferocious army determined to rescue their queen from a metal fortress. Or, viewed another way, a swarm of bees who, for two days, followed their queen bee trapped inside a Mitsubishi Outlander. Either way, it makes for a good tale.<\/p>\n

The Outlander belongs to Carol Howarth, a 68-year-old grandmother, who had no idea she\u2019d picked up a tiny winged passenger when she visited a nature reserve.<\/p>\n

Later, when she stopped to go shopping in Haverfordwest, West Wales, the bees descended – thousands and thousands of them.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll let local ranger Tom Moses take it from here.<\/p>\n

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Moses, who works as a Pembrokeshire Coast National Park ranger, was driving by when he happened upon the raid.<\/p>\n

\u201cDriving through town noticed this going on outside the Lower Three Crowns and couldn\u2019t resist getting involved!\u201d he\u00a0wrote in a pun-filled post<\/a> on his Facebook page. (Headline: Bee-rilliant swarm.)<\/p>\n

Bees are already dying from habitat loss and terrible farming practices, like pesticide use, he figured. The last thing you want is someone to pour boiling water on them to shoo them away from a car.<\/p>\n

So, he called in reinforcements \u2013 the intrepid folks at the Pembrokeshire Beekeepers Association<\/p>\n

They gingerly nudged the bees into a box. Not so gingerly though. There were several stinging incidents like the \u201cdrunk bloke from pub went and swept a load of bees off car with hand looking for queen, got stung loads pfffft\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that would be the end of the story, but you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Howarth found the bees were back,\u00a0she told The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So once again, out came the beekeepers.<\/p>\n

By 6 p.m., her Outlander was free of the bees. (No word though on what happened to the queen.)<\/p>\n

Moses says members of colonies often follow their queen bee if she moves hives.<\/p>\n

And queens moves hives if the hives are disturbed \u2013 say, by humans. Or by the arrival of another queen bee.<\/p>\n

He speculates the shiny warm Mitsubishi might have seemed like a good option for a new home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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