edit - ok methinks it's mostly settled now. now back to your regularly scheduled mingling

this is the time of year when bees split off from the hive with a new queen and set off to colonize. They'll fly miles and miles in a day and then stop to rest.

I bet by tomorrow they are all gone

Mind my own bees-ness.

also, North America has lost over a third of its bee population to the Hive Collapse Disorder and are becoming endangered. try not to kill em

oh god i hope so

I'm scared of bees and more than likely allergic to them (allergic to everything else) so I'd be leaving town right about now...

Are they mutant ninja killer bees or just normal ones?

are you serious?

those things are going down!!

Animal control? GOOD LUCK!

the neighbours rallied together and started burning fires....

Try a shotgun

"Swarming is the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies. A new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees, a process called swarming. In the prime swarm, about 60% of the worker bees leave the original hive location with the old queen.

A swarm of bees sometimes frightens people, though the bees are usually not aggressive at this stage of their life cycle. This is principally due to the swarming bees' lack of a hive to defend and their interest in finding a new nesting location for their queen. This does not mean that bees from a swarm will not attack if they perceive a threat; however, most bees only attack in response to intrusions against their hive. Swarm clusters, hanging off of a tree branch, will move on and find a suitable nesting location in a day or two."

-wiki

perhaps they are finally filming the sequel to Hitchcock's famous thriller "The Birds"...

they are prolly too tired to fly on so the fires may not help much and the smoke will just make em lethargic so they wont want to move on

Thats what i would do too, aight!

I am sure i am part carribean!

Yes, the smoke might deter them. Hope they move on quickly but I myself would not hesitate to kill any that make their way inside. I am so allergic that a single sting could kill me and my EPI pen is way outdated....onto another topic - that of living without health insurance......

By the way, they tend to be aggressive at this time of year so if you are swatting them inside try to be sure of your aim and timing!

Don't let the queen get in your car. You will have 100,000 bees in there for the night. They are following her pheramone scent. You are witnessing a really neat natural event.

Oh that movie just creeped me out back in the day!!! I still enjoy a good thrill when I catch it on late night tv. Nothing like Hitchcock and a good B+W film!!!!!

the neighbour braved the massive swarm stuck to his house by taking a can of insect spray to 'em. it seems to be working... they're disappearing (god i hope they don't get the idea to just move over a house )

as far as i can tell they seem to be going away...

wow... this was some random shiz to come home to

thanks for the info