Posted on 04/10/2010 11:22:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Infiniti parked on neighborhood street abuzz with swarm
It looks like a scene out of a B-rate movie. Thousands of bees attached to something other than a hive looking hungry and ready to devour anything in their path. It wasn't exactly an "Attack of the Killer Bees" situation but the oddity of nature in the South Bay Friday was enough to make people steer clear of a car discovered with a swarm attached.
A viewer alerted us to the bee-zarre scene at the corner of 5th and E. Empire streets, where a white Infiniti was discovered with thousands of the tiny buzzers covering a huge section of the car's right side. When we got there, that's just what we found. Check out the raw video clip from the scene but be warned, these little guys might just give you the creeps.
The bees were likely just doing what comes naturally. The swarm follows the queen, which will sometimes land in a new place while the workers seek out a new home.
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G*d help us...
Brings back shildhood memories of being stuck in a car with a sudden influx of earwigs. (shudder)
Lock the door!
Why did that happen?
Worth money. Capture the queen without harming her and you have a bee colony.
I bet that’s what the guy was thinking when he came back to his car.
Oh my. I know we need bees, but I do not need them within close proximity to my body, near the car, or in the house. If that was my car, I would freak. I hate things that sting. I know they say to hold still if a bee is near, but I have gotten stung at least twice doing that. I try to get away from it.
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That’s what I’d be thinking.
No idea...but I saw a similar thing in Midtown Memphis back in 1985ish. We were going to Methodist Central hospital to visit a friend and we saw this car with a swarm of bees attached to one side of it. We steered clear of it not sure what to think of the sight. When we came back to the parking lot after the visit...they were gone.
I have never heard of an earwig swarm.
The question is whether they are domesticated honey bees that are relatively tolerant of humans or Africanized (killer) bees that will attack anything that moves within a hundred yards of the swarm?
We had stayed at a motel on the way home from Disney World. The amount of insects in the parking lot was amazing, but we expect that around well-lit Florida motels, usually beetles and roaches. Several earwigs were in the room, which was a bit unusual.
After another day of travel, my dog and I stayed in the car while another motel’s rooms were examined. Earwigs started crawling out from the crevices on to the floor, doors and windows. My fear of bugs was just a little less than my fear of our Houndini escaping if we left the car, so we stuck it out until my parents returned to a crying child and earwigs throughout the car. Felt creepy-crawly all the way back home. It’s the only time we’ve ever seen a swarm of earwigs.
Yucky f’ing poo! I hate earwigs. What a nasty experience.
Just take a ride through a car wash.
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