Expecting an investor to be rational when they have felt the pain of seeing their savings drop by 20% is as difficult as unlikely as expecting ahiveof shaken bees to relax.
Wildlife expert Gavin Fletcher, Senior Conservation Officer at Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire, says that not many bees live socially in a large hive, lots of them are solitary.
The present hive has been placed on a south-facing roof to take advantage of what sun and warmth there is and the bees are being given supplementary feed as a precaution.
In 2007, about one third of the US domesticated bee population was wiped out as a result ofa phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with some commercial hive owners losing up to 90% of their bees.