Honeybees can only survive for three years in the wild
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Beekeepers in Guernsey are offering to re-home swarming honeybees free of charge to safeguard the population.
The insects, which cannot survive more than three years in the wild, are at risk from pesticides and disease.
Island experts are offering to take care of swarms of the honey-producing bees to try and prevent large numbers of them dying during May and June.
Alan Jewell, of the Guernsey Beekeepers Association, said his members would be pleased to re-home the insects.
He said: "We're asking people to ring a beekeeper or ring the environmental department so we can rescue the swarms of bees and put them back into a hive.
" What we don't want really is for the bees to be left to die.
"If they're left in the wild, honeybees will not survive more than 2 or 3 years."
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