Laurence Edwards' home apiary was devastated when multiple beehives were crushed, likely by a fallen tree. He lost a £650 nucleus long hive with eight nucs, upside-down lay-on hives with broken gas struts, concrete hives, and plastic hives. Edwards plans to clear the debris and burn what remains.
I just cannot get over the destruction that's happened in my home apiary. I don't know whether it's a tree that's fallen down, although that's what I probably suspect. I don't know if it's vandalism. I don't know if someone's driven into all of the gear that's here. I just literally don't have a clue. But all I know is that all of the beehives that were out here are smashed to bits, not repairable. Like what you're seeing there, that is a £650 long hive. absolutely love that long hive, nucleus long hive, 8 separate nucs in there. Yep, that's the roof on the floor in 2 separate bits, and obviously all of that is just smashed up. But things get so much worse. Look at it over here. I just— oh, I can't even believe to talk at the moment. Like, I'm genuinely lost for words. That one there, that is, if you can believe it, an upside-down lay-on hive that is Smashed to smithereens, like literally smashed. You can see the little gas struts over there. Take a look at the roof here. Like, look at this. What has happened here? It is just fallen to pieces, like bits just lying on the floor. And then look, my concrete eyes. Oh my God, like this is painful. This is difficult. I've never ever had anything like this happen before. Smashed to bits. Like, that is concrete beehives there. That's not like light polystyrene or anything. Look at that. That is absolutely solid concrete beehives smashed to bits. Black plastic smashed to bits. I'm just gonna have to start getting this all together, putting it in the tip, burning it, getting rid of it all. Literally, my day could not get any worse.
