Setting up a massive stage for the Morgan Wallen concert at Acrisure Stadium can pose a lot of challenges, but a swarm of honeybees isn’t usually one of them.
The Fine Family Apiary in Monongahela, PA was brought in and was able to remove around 15,000 bees that were seen on stage scaffolding.
Owner Al Fine tells KDKA Radio his daughter told him she heard there was a swarm of bees at Acrisure Stadium. After calling to the stadium, he went down to remove them.
The bee experts were able to use a nucleus box or nuc box, used by beekeepers to collect the swarm.
The bees were safely collected and taken back to the apiary’s “home yard” in Forward Township, where they can live freely.
In total, Fine believes four to five pounds of bees were recovered. That equals between 12,000 to 15,000 honeybees.
“This was a pretty good-size swarm, the second biggest one I got this year,” said Fine, adding it took him about and hour-and-a-half to two hours to remove the bees
The bees will either be moved to another pollination site or they’ll stay in the yard and Fine will see if they can get some honey from them.
Honeybee swarms are common in the spring and early summer.
Country superstar Morgan Wallen is playing back-to-back shows this Friday and Saturday at Acrisure Stadium on Pittsburgh’s North Shore.
Crews are setting for back-to-back shows at Acrisure Stadium
Crews are setting for back-to-back shows at Acrisure Stadium
