"Yellow-black, yellow-black, yellow-black, yellow-black… Oh, black and yellow. Yeah, let’s shake it up a little."  - The Bee Movie - Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld)

     Bees, bees, bees…  On a warm spring afternoon in November we had a bee incident at our house.  As the builder and I were going through some receipts in the house, we noticed a bee inside with us.  He promptly killed it; then we heard a very loud humming noise.  
     Immediately, we saw another bee and another and another.  What happened next was right out of a horror movie!  Bees started swarming into the house from vents in the wood stove.  We quickly put old newspaper and wood chips into the stove, smoking the bees back up the chimney.  We went outside and saw hundreds flying around the chimney vent on the roof.  Apparently, spring is great for bees.
     Our next bee sighting was in summer.  The bees were out once again, looking for a place to nest for fall and winter.  We saw a few at the corner of the porch eaves.  During the night, we saw them circling the opposite porch corner.  Lo and behold, when we got up the next morning, what a sight to behold. (The picture above shows what we discovered.) 
     Those busy bees had started forming a hive overnight; it looked like an upside-down bowl.  It was about 20cm in diameter!  The builder and Hubby successfully smoked them out.  Friends who stopped by later in the day said they saw them swirling around the neighbor's house.  Uh oh!