[WATCH] Oh Bee-have!

For the past couple of years, the decline in the numbers of bees has made headlines around the world.

Here in Krugersdorp, the Lions Club has joined in the fight to save an insect whose extinction could mean lingering problems for the human race.

In 2016, Johann Marx and the Krugersdorp Lions Club started their ‘sponsor a beehive’ project. Members of the community can buy a beehive for R1 000, and Johann and Lynette Visser will populate it with bees and look after it.

They also retrieve bees from people’s houses at a small cost. Johann explains that the cost of extracting the bees is not for their own benefit, it’s to cover the expenses of retrieving the bees and looking after them.

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“Sometimes we have to extract bees from, for instance, inside a wall. We then have to break apart the wall, rescue the bees, and get someone to rebuild the wall,” he explained. Finding a builder to do the repairs costs money.

Johann and Lynette were recently asked to come and collect a hive that had formed in a swimming pool pump house at a property in Krugersdorp North.

The owner of the house explained that she had been working on the pump earlier that day, and later in the afternoon, when she wanted to open the top, she felt a warm wind.

When looking inside, she saw the bees and within a matter of two weeks they had formed a honeycomb and made themselves comfortable.

If you would like to find out how you can help the bees or contact Johann and Lynette to help you with bees on your property you can phone Lynette on 079 459 7086, Johann on 076 2000 771, or Gunther Walendorf from the Lions Club on 082 920 8552.

There are many ways you can assist the Lions Club and Johann with the bees. Contact them if you want to help.

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