1000,00 Bees Rehoused During Castell Coch Renervations
High-tech surveys have highlighted weaknesses in the huge chimney stacks on the keep and gatehouse.
Cadw ( the Welsh equivalent of English Heritage), which manages the castle, used drones to fly close up and take detailed photographs. These showed tiny fissures in the stone and deterioration to the pointing, allowing water to seep in to the bedrooms below.
Removing the airbricks, they were amazed to find a colony of around 100,000 bees, which had made their home deep in the walls of the castle.
Work was stopped to allow professional beekeeper, Lorne East, to come in and salvage the colony.
But there was so much honey, it poured out of the walls all the way to the floor.
Stephen Jones, Cadw’s programme and operational planning manager, sneaked a taste of the golden honey and was blown away by its taste.
1000,00 Bees Rehoused During Castell Coch Renervations
High-tech surveys have highlighted weaknesses in the huge chimney stacks on the keep and gatehouse.
Cadw ( the Welsh equivalent of English Heritage), which manages the castle, used drones to fly close up and take detailed photographs. These showed tiny fissures in the stone and deterioration to the pointing, allowing water to seep in to the bedrooms below.
Removing the airbricks, they were amazed to find a colony of around 100,000 bees, which had made their home deep in the walls of the castle.
Work was stopped to allow professional beekeeper, Lorne East, to come in and salvage the colony.
But there was so much honey, it poured out of the walls all the way to the floor.
Stephen Jones, Cadw’s programme and operational planning manager, sneaked a taste of the golden honey and was blown away by its taste.