Hyfi
06-10-2013, 04:22 AM
Seen it on nature shows but never in real life.
Last Saturday morning at 9am, my wife yells to me that there is a big swarm of bugs in the yard. I have seen little swarms of tiny bugs swirling in the sun from time to time, so I just chuckled and said Yeah, Ive seen it before. She says, No this is different, whatever it is, they are big.
So I look out the window to see what looks like a Tornado in the yard swirling all around a large Cyprus tree in my yard and slowly they all ended up in the tree. At first we thought there was a big nest and scrambled to find and buy the right stuff to deal with a huge nest.
As they settled down I was able to get closer and realized there is no nest, and these were huge Honey Bees and they were just all hanging on each other and crawling all over each other.
I did a little research online and found some pics of what looked exactly the same. It said they swarm around 9am in the morning, hang out for a day, then go off to another spot or a new nest. Early the next morning I saw some fly away in a direction I was happy with and it did not look like they were returning, but the huge swarm was still hanging there. We were busy getting ready to go someplace and at 9:15 I looked again and just like the info said, they were gone and right on time.
The pic below is one of what I took while they were here.
http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh507/Hyfi61/beeswarm_zpsa8a3ecee.jpg (http://s1249.photobucket.com/user/Hyfi61/media/beeswarm_zpsa8a3ecee.jpg.html)
Last Saturday morning at 9am, my wife yells to me that there is a big swarm of bugs in the yard. I have seen little swarms of tiny bugs swirling in the sun from time to time, so I just chuckled and said Yeah, Ive seen it before. She says, No this is different, whatever it is, they are big.
So I look out the window to see what looks like a Tornado in the yard swirling all around a large Cyprus tree in my yard and slowly they all ended up in the tree. At first we thought there was a big nest and scrambled to find and buy the right stuff to deal with a huge nest.
As they settled down I was able to get closer and realized there is no nest, and these were huge Honey Bees and they were just all hanging on each other and crawling all over each other.
I did a little research online and found some pics of what looked exactly the same. It said they swarm around 9am in the morning, hang out for a day, then go off to another spot or a new nest. Early the next morning I saw some fly away in a direction I was happy with and it did not look like they were returning, but the huge swarm was still hanging there. We were busy getting ready to go someplace and at 9:15 I looked again and just like the info said, they were gone and right on time.
The pic below is one of what I took while they were here.
http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh507/Hyfi61/beeswarm_zpsa8a3ecee.jpg (http://s1249.photobucket.com/user/Hyfi61/media/beeswarm_zpsa8a3ecee.jpg.html)