Monday, August 23, 2010
Largest Bee House
- world record
set by Kent Wildlife Trust
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, Kent, UK --
Staff from Kent Wildlife Trust
and volunteers took
four hours to assemble a giant bee house which measuring 127.25
sq ft (5m long and 2.37m high) , setting the world record
for the Largest
Bee House
.
The frame for the World's
Largest Bee Ho
use
was constructed by chartered builder Edward Morgan and it
was filled with stone, bricks, pre-drilled concrete, wooden
blocks and plant material.
All these materials have been donated by local
businesses or sourced from the trust’s own nature reserves.
Inmates at Maidstone Prison have built many of the internal
component parts of the structure in their workshops.
Amanda Hamley
, community fundraising
and events manager for Kent Wildlife Trust, which runs the
site, said: “We are really, really happy with it.
“I think it looks even better than I thought
it would and it will provide a fantastic spectacle for visitors.”
She said 13 volunteers led by the Mayor of Sevenoaks,
Cllr Simon Raikes, took part on the day, under the watchful
eye of seven officials from Guinness World Records.
The Largest
Bee House in The World
will be a permanent feature
of the reserve, which is accessed off Bradbourne Vale Road.
It is hoped that the buzz created by the World's
Largest Bee Ho
use
will encourage people to set up their own bee hives in their
gardens.
Solitary bees are expected to take up residence
next spring. The charity, which runs 60 nature reserves across
the county, said the majority of bees prefer to live alone,
which is why they are called solitary bees. They come in all
species and pollinate flowers, but are becoming scarce.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
