{"id":1065430,"date":"2026-07-03T07:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1065430\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:27:17","slug":"thousands-of-bees-swarm-on-birmingham-city-centre-restaurant-as-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1065430\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of bees swarm on Birmingham city centre restaurant as warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

A warning has been issued after thousands of bees swarmed outside a Birmingham city centre<\/a> restaurant, forcing people to keep their distance.<\/p>\n

The large swarm descended on the outdoor seating area of Las Iguanas<\/a> at around 2pm today, July 2, with stunned onlookers stopping to watch the unusual scene unfold.<\/p>\n

Footage showed thousands of bees clustered around one of the restaurant’s outdoor tables.<\/p>\n

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The insects had completely engulfed a table and the surrounding chairs while restaurant staff inside stared from a window.<\/p>\n

One onlooker was overheard saying they “couldn’t believe” what they were seeing as the swarm remained concentrated around the outdoor seating area.<\/p>\n

Security staff at Brindleyplace <\/a>warned people in the area to keep their distance.<\/p>\n

Members of the public gathered to film the spectacle.<\/p>\n

Bee swarms are a natural phenomenon and most commonly occur when a colony looks to establish a new home.<\/p>\n

During this process, thousands of bees can temporarily gather in one location before moving on.<\/p>\n

Tenants working in nearby office buildings were being warned to take extra care when leaving their workplaces while the situation was dealt with, BirminghamLive<\/a> understands.<\/p>\n

The incident attracted significant attention in Brindleyplace.<\/p>\n

Several people could be seen watching from a safe distance, with many expressing surprise at the sheer number of bees.<\/p>\n

Brindleyplace\u2019s resident beekeeper, John Beavan, said later in the afternoon: “The swarm of bees seen at Brindleyplace have since moved into a tree at high-level.<\/p>\n

“The swarm could have come from anywhere in a two to three mile radius of the estate, probably from a nearby park, a back garden or even just an individual tree.<\/p>\n

“This is a natural part of the lifecycle of bees which will often choose to move on when their Queen can no longer provide for them all.<\/p>\n

“If the bees are proving a nuisance to the public they can be relocated, but it\u2019s usually best to let them move on by themselves if possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A warning has been issued after thousands of bees swarmed outside a Birmingham city centre restaurant, forcing people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[292299,855,983,43759,748,393,4884,292298,16,15],"class_list":["post-1065430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-bee-swarms","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-centre","tag-brindleyplace","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-outdoor-seating-area","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116854866210876612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}