BAYSWATER is abuzz with news the council is considering saving a massive hive of bees from a dying tree earmarked for the chop.
Bee man Joseph Kwintowski notes a colony relocation costs about $150 – much cheaper than killing them.
A recent inspection of Robert Thomson Park’s 41 trees by an arborist found most were in poor health.
As a result, 19 need remedial treatment and three are hanging by a thread. Their fate rests with a decision due to be made by Bayswater at this week’s meeting (which was just after Voice deadline).
The council will decide whether they should all be felled or whether two could be saved and then fenced to protect people from falling branches.
The bee colony is in one of the three sickest trees, and is so large it extends from the upper branches to inside much of the hollowed trunk.
Councillor Chris Cornish told the Voice it was important to save the bees.
by MARTA PASCUAL JUANOLA
Perth Voice Interactive 
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