It was Justin Brown and Nancy White to the rescue last weekend when Frontline Action was faced with an unusual predicament.

The couple, who run a blueberry farm known as Brown’s Family Farm, got into beekeeping following a chance meeting with a beekeeper a few years ago.

Since then, they’ve been on the ready and eager to help during swarming season, when a honeybee queen will set off to set up a new colony.

In the case of Frontline Action, that happened to be in an old propane cylinder. Brown and White had to cut the cylinder to get to the bees and find the queen.

Justin Brown says generally speaking, honeybees are quite docile and all you have to do is remove the queen and the swarm will follow.

He says the bees appeared to have shown up that day and weren’t established. “It was very easy, now if it was a couple of weeks later it would have been a different story. (That’s) because they would have been set up, they would have made that their home and it probably would have been a different story.”

He says when it comes to honeybees they’re happy to help, but he encourages anyone who may encounter a problem to know the difference between honeybees, bumblebees and wasps.

He says in the case of wasps, sometimes all they can do is just call in the exterminator.

“We all know that wasps are not the most friendliest of creatures” says Brown. “Wasps are a little less forgiving.”