SLIDELL -- A Slidell man describes a bee swarm in his backyard like something out of a movie.
At first he was thinking of using insecticide to get rid of the bees, but now he's heeding the beekeeper's advice and putting them to good use.
"They were all standing in the street looking back here," Kenny Bevins describes of a scene about a week ago. "So I came out here and that's when the swarm was there. So I say, with all the kids here I got to get rid of that."
Bivins says he called bee removal services, but they were all out of his budget, so instead he put a request out for local beekeepers to help.
Pete Eschete calls himself a beekeeping hobbyist. He came out to see what the buzz was all about.
Eschete says this is the time of the year when some colonies break off and form new ones.
"Bees just started swarming maybe three weeks ago," he recalled. "The only time bees attack you is when you're going to disturb them."
As Eschete has been working closely with bees, he told us about their importance. Bees he said help pollinate crops and play a vital role in the ecological system, so he tries to collect them.
"Just have to cut a section of the wall out and take a knife and start trimming away the wax," he showed us.
Not only are they worth saving, Eschete said it can cost hundreds of dollars to buy bees, potentially to make honey or other products.
Eschete plans to come back later with the right tools. Which is a pretty sweet outcome considering Bivins initially just wanted them to be exterminated. No buzzkill this time.
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