Bee Awful News

Last year I mentioned I keep a look out for rubbish and/or ill informed reporting on bees and there's a lot out there. I had considered having a trophy and after a couple of articles that emerged recently, I think I will set one up.

The rules are simple, an article about bees that is mis-leading, dumb, has stupid puns or contains at least two factual mistakes.
Preferably all of the above.

Last year's clear winner was this in the Lancashire Evening Post with this wonderful article about swarms.
The small detail the LEP and Steve Ganner [who looks like a cross between a badly aged Mel Gibson and Darth Vader] seem to have overlooked is that bumble bees don't swarm. Despite this Steve has attended 300 bumble bee swarms in 10 years. I think he needs to adjust his medication.

So far this year we have had:-

An entry from the BBC that repeats the old chestnuts about swarming bees being  angry and liable to sting.
Wrong - swarming bees are at their calmest and least likely to sting.

The ITV's entry:-

Puntastic.