# Swarm of bees outside my window. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566 "2011-08-30T01:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![automagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@automagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/automagic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/1 "2011-08-30T01:23:19Z")
I come home from work today and I see a few bees flying around, then I hear a low buzz so I look up and on the tree that is right in front of my 2nd story apartment there is a huge swarm of bees. There has to be hundreds of them crawling all over each other like a sick bee orgy. Whats worse is that on the branches around them there are dozens of groups of 5 or 6 bees clustered together watching the mother swarm. I moved to So Cal last year from NY and have never seen something like that in my life. Truly surreal. I wonder if I should do anything about it. The few websites I visited about bee keeping said that the swarm should move on in a day or two. I sure hope so. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/2 "2011-08-30T03:08:01Z")
If they’re honeybees, you can try calling a local beekeeper to come and get the swarm. That’s what we would do in our rural area, but beekeepers are a dime a dozen here. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/3 "2011-08-30T08:32:26Z")
Oh it’s just **Covered\_in\_bees!** stalking you. Go outside and tell him to go away, he’ll buzz off. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/4 "2011-08-30T12:52:43Z")
The bees should move on within anywhere from 15 minutes to 3 days. They are really non-aggressive when they are swarming. I had a swarm in my yard a couple of years ago. Bees everywhere, on the car, doors and windows and swirlling around the whole yard with a creepy, low throbbing sound. 15 minute later … not a sign of them. If you want to do a local beekeeper a favor you could contact them to come pick up the swarm. It’s like getting a free hive of bees. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/5 "2011-08-30T13:38:02Z")
Sounds like you [need a spider](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=622288). ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/6 "2011-08-30T19:35:16Z")
I heard if you stuck your face in the swarm and inhale through your nose really hard you get a wicked buzz. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/7 "2011-08-30T19:55:38Z")
If, at some point, you find the swarm is _inside_ your window, run. Meanwhile, shameless hijack, I’ll just mention that I received a notice of a hazardous situation earlier today in which the person who wrote it up listed the hazard as “Bea flying around another employee”. Lest it seem a simple typo, the full description was “I saw a bea flying around the employee’s arm. Told him that he needed to move alway so the beas will not get him.” He saw Aunt Bea from _The Andy Griffith Show_ flying around? What? ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/8 "2011-08-31T22:34:11Z")
If they’re still there tomorrow there might be a beekeeper interested in free bees. I don’t do it any more, but we used to tell the local extension office to give folks our number. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/9 "2011-09-01T01:12:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > If, at some point, you find the swarm is _inside_ your window, run. > > Meanwhile, shameless hijack, I’ll just mention that I received a notice of a hazardous situation earlier today in which the person who wrote it up listed the hazard as “Bea flying around another employee”. Lest it seem a simple typo, the full description was “I saw a bea flying around the employee’s arm. Told him that he needed to move alway so the beas will not get him.” > > He saw Aunt Bea from _The Andy Griffith Show_ flying around? What? I think she was actually called Aunt Bee, so apparently he actually saw Bea Arthur flying around his co-worker. He was right to report it. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swarm-of-bees-outside-my-window/594566/10 "2011-09-01T15:44:16Z")
have they moved on yet? Hives have gained more respect even in Brooklyn…[bees rescued after tree torn by storm](http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/bee-rescue/?scp=2&sq=bees&st=cse)