Bee Swarm

That mass is 100% bees.

A swarm of bees descended on our front yard. We were sitting outside when they arrived. I had convinced Khloe who is terrified of everything that crawls or flies that it was OK to go outside. Then the yard started buzzing. I ran inside with Khloe and Don stayed outside convincing Polly that she needed to come inside. Sean was playing with his friends, Andrew and Ethan and they were not scared of the buzzing. One of the twins actually threw a stick at the swarm in the the tree. 

 . Lucky for us Sean had some friends over to play and their mom came to pick them up as Don was asking Google what to do. Angela said "my neighbor keeps bees." She called her neighbor who called another person who came and captured our bees. 

The beekeeper said he thought there were over 10,000 bees in the tree. 

No one got stung. The bees were nice, the mosquitoes not so much. The bee keepers said someone had just bought a hive and the bees took off or a colony got too big and split off. They also said the bee's would have moved on in the morning. They were looking for an attic or a tree to live in. When Angela's neighbor called the bee keeper he was in his garage building 5 new bee boxes when he got the call. Now he only needs bees for 4.

They left the box sitting in the yard until after dark so all the bee's could go inside. 

Khloe sat outside a good distance from the bees and watched the show,

The next morning this was all that was left of the swarm.