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A better approach to beehives in homes: Move, not kill
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Origin Exterminators employee Muhammad Nuridzuan Jami (right), 27, and bee keeper John Chong, remove and relocate a bee hive from a balcony of Dr Nirmal Kishnani, who lives in an apartment in the east, on April 12, 2021.
ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
SINGAPORE - The hive heaved with each cut made into the branch that held it, but the colony of red dwarf honey bees (Apis florea) seemed otherwise undisturbed.
For night had fallen, and all other lights at the balcony of the Marine Parade apartment where the insects had built their home were turned off - save the red light used to document the process.
