Buzz Buzz Buzzzzzz

So, I'm in the kitchen this afternoon, minding my own, when I notice a little girl looking out her window in the house behind mine. Then I see a WHOLE bunch of something flying around in the air in their yard. My first thought was grasshoppers, since I heard about an invasion of them down in Lehi recently. Then I remembered grasshoppers don't fly. I looked around, and they were only flying in that one yard, but there were THOUSANDS of them. I realized they were bees, and then I thought, "KILLER BEES! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" Check out this picture:

There were so many, I almost started to panic. What was going on? I called Kevin upstairs to see this strange phenomenon. He, of course, was pretty calm about the whole thing, but I was kinda freaking out. Asking him, "Well, what are they doing? Why are they here? What are they going to do next?"
He just said, "I don't know, that's wierd" and went back downstairs to do whatever it is he was doing.


I tried to just get back to baking my cookies, but couldn't stop thinking they were going to break down the door and kill us all. I kept my eye out the window. But pretty soon, the numbers seemed to dwindle. I thought, "Oh good, they're going away to the next yard." But I noticed the remaining bees were just hovering around a certain tree in our back yard.


Then, I noticed a big black spot in the tree:




I finally was brave enough to go outside and take a closer look to whatever the heck they were doing. What in the world?



I called Kevin back upstairs and what does he do? He decides to take the super-zoom lens and get right at the base of the tree for some close ups. Eeewww! I get the heebie-jeebies just looking at this.




So, I called animal services, and they're closed on Saturdays. Their message says, "for an animal emergency, call police dispatch at this number" so I called the number and said I had a bee problem, then they referred me to some bee specialist. The bee man sounded like a sweet old man, and he said he's been dealing with bees for years. He said he'd come later after it cools off, and shake them off into a box. I failed to ask him where he was going to take the bees. But he said they were honey bees, so I'm assuming he won't kill them. We were gone all evening and I told him he was more than welcome to just let himself into the back yard and get them. He said he'd come over. But I just went outside, (it's close to midnight), and the bees are still there! It's so creepy! But kinda cool at the same time. I figured it's too late to call him now. Maybe in the morning they'll fly away, maybe into one of your yards! He said they'd just be there for the night, then fly away the next day. It's just normal honey-bee behavior. I've never seen anything like this before.