Malaysia Airports’ Response to Benyamin Ismail and Tony Fernandes’ Tweets Regarding Bees Spotted at Klia2

SEPANG - We are aware that a swarm of bees (not a beehive) have congregated at Bay Q4 klia2. It is quite common for migrating swarms of bees to congregate at airports especially at the airside and they would normally disperse when there is rain or heavy wind. We monitor such situations and if they do not disperse by nightfall, we will get pest control to fumigate so as to avoid the formation of a beehive.

Such activities are normally done at night for safety reasons as it would be hazardous to disturb the swarm during the day. In this particular case, the swarm had appeared between 10am to 11am this morning. If the swarm remains, we will continue to take similar actions and we are ready to fumigate at 8pm tonight. We have not had any situation where the migrating swarm had caused harm to anyone in the past.