Vicky Henshaw

It might be worth you holding it just in front of that hive to see the different noise of foragers coming from.

Probably a mailbox.

A mailbox?

One of those old iron mailboxes in a wall.

One of the young post, green ones.

Yeah, we found them in, I suppose, ESB boxes, you know.

Other than that, you find them in the water.

I haven't, but we see other people finding them in water drains.

Traffic cones.

A statue.

Traffic cone.

Traffic cone.

inside the traffic car it was a really easy one to remove they've been seen in like a bulldozer we found them on the silage that was interesting because the farmer had upturned the calf feeder so he had an area where he was storing all the plastic from the silage and all the rubbish and he had just flung an upside down last year, last summer and myself and Vicky rescued them out of there put them in a nook and gave them to a beekeeper that was really cool

Yes, we have great news.

Since I was talking to you last, we now have more than 820 wild colonies identified across Ireland and reports are still coming in all the time.

So we found a few more in Menlo last week.

We found a few more down in Killarney National Park the week before last.

So we're finding them all over the country.

We still have a few gaps, and this year we are looking for them in more remote places, in our national parks, and we have been talking to the rangers around the national parks to help look for wild colonies.

But yes, so Ireland, unlike many places in Europe, has a widespread, fairly numerous population of wild honeybees.