- Bee removalist shared astonishing images of a hive found around a barbecue
- Carl Skimmer attended a job in Sydney where he found the out-of-control hive
- The owners of the bee-covered barbecue had not touched it for eight months
- Mr Skimmer safely relocated the honeybees and only got stung several times
An expert bee extractor has turned stomachs with startling photographs of a giant out-of-control hive in a suburban backyard.
Beekeeper Carl Skimmer paid a visit to a property in Claremont Meadows, in Sydney’s west, to remove a beehive which had wrapped itself around a barbecue.
It took eight months of neglect for the outdoor barbecue to become the new home for thousands of honeybees – and it was Mr Skimmer’s job to safely extract them.
Beekeeper Carl Skimmer paid a visit to a property in Claremont Meadows, in Sydney’s west, to remove a beehive (pictured) which had wrapped itself around a barbecue
It only took eight months of neglect for the outdoor barbecue to become the new home for thousands of honeybees (pictured) – and it was Mr Skimmer’s job to safely extract them
Astonishing pictures of the bee swarm show how an elaborate hive had been forged around the barbecue gas bottle, while a colony of the stinging insects sat on the lid.
According to Mr Skimmer – who moonlights as the ‘Bee Man’ around the Penrith area – the home had been left vacant for four months while the owners were overseas.
The barbecue had not been touched in eight months, and the owners were shocked to find the swarm of bees after removing the cover.
Mr Skimmer’s motto is ‘Save Em Don’t Spray Em’, and he simply re-homed the honeycomb and the bee colony instead of vanquishing them.
The ‘Bee Man’ shared the creepy images on his Facebook page and told his followers he was lucky to be only attacked by the bees a few times.
The barbecue (pictured) had not been touched in eight months, and the owners were shocked to find the swarm of bees after removing the cover
The ‘Bee Man’ shared the creepy images on his Facebook page and told his followers he was lucky to be only attacked by the bees a few times (Bees pictured)
‘I only got hit five times while re-homing them. So these girls were good,’ he said.
He described the curious-looking honeycomb formation as an ‘open air hive’ which is a less common structure for a honeybee nest.
Mr Skimmer has gained local notoriety as the ‘Bee Man’ and he often shares his bee re-location stories to his Facebook page.
He first shot to fame in the western Sydney community after he helped remove a swarm of bees which had gathered on a shopping trolley in Penrith’s High St in 2016.