David Humphries

<p>Morning! </p>

<p>I hope you don't mind me picking your brain, but I have a random question. I was too chicken to post on the forum, however yours was the input I wanted as you may have some thoughts/experience. In one of our parks I noticed that one of our Beech had shed a large section (the cobra had failed too). The remaining stem is to be monolithed, but the fallen section has a colony of honey bees which I am concerned that if left near the ground, will be vandalised/predated etc. We were considering resurrecting the fallen limb (it's a big'un) to the monolithed stem, but it would mean that the hive would be inverted as it was right near the union. It may be a bit early for this question (it is for me anyway), but do bees have an upside-down? At this stage we are not sure whether to leave it alone, or try intervene if it will improve the situation for the bees. I will try and attach photos. Failing that I could just man-up and post them to the forum!</p>

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<p>I hope you're well - Sally</p>