Parliament House beekeeper gives a tour of the apiary - World Bee Day 2022 | May 16, 2022 | Canberra Times
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Published On: 2022-05-16
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Cormac Farrell has been the head beekeeper of Parliament House for close to five years. It's a voluntary position and he oversees the bees in four honeybee hives and two native stingless beehives.
He says that hives, like ministries perhaps, can be a little placid or a bit angry depending on a few different things, but he's sure the bees get to know the handlers, and vice versa.
"I was really nervous the first time I opened a hive and saw all the happenings inside," he says. "It was just a maelstrom of bees going everywhere, luckily not angry ones, a friend had set me up with quite a nice colony, with a nice easy going queen and they were very forgiving of my clumsy beginner fingers."
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