Hull Woman Feeling The Sting After 20,000-Bee Swarm Nests In Her Car

Bad luck comes in many forms, but finding 20,000 bees casually turning your car into a nest ranks at the more bizarre end of things - and they're not easy to remove...

When you arrive back at home to your car one ordinary afternoon, just about the last thing you expect to find is that it’s been taken over by a 20,000-strong swarm of bees, but that’s exactly what happened to a woman in Hull this week.

First, we apologise for the awful artificial voiceover on the video. You’re better to turn the sound off and just check out the pics.

Shirley Taylor has something of a bee in her bonnet (sorry) after her Nissan Juke was rendered unusable by a swarm of worker bees, and they’re already producing wax and honey. Getting them to leave is going to be a bit tricky.

Image: Hull Daily Mail
Image: Hull Daily Mail

Apparently the queen and her workers have moved into the cavities inside and beneath the bonnet, turning the Nissan into a big, blue pile of nope. Since bees are critical to ecosystems in Britain, you can’t just hose them off. The buzzword (sorry) is care. Professional bee-keepers are trying to comb (sorry) the bees out group by group, relocating them until the queen decides to leave on her own.

Poor Shirley, 57, can’t use the car until that happens, leaving her feeling a bit stung by the experience (sorry; last one). Bees can live in one place for years if they get comfortable. Imagine giving it back to the dealer at the end of your finance agreement…

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Anonymous

Poor woman.

06/13/2017 - 10:13 |
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Anonymous

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06/13/2017 - 10:16 |
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German Perfectionist

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06/13/2017 - 10:16 |
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Anonymous

Does that make her car a beemer?

06/13/2017 - 10:17 |
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Anonymous

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I can’t wait for all the other puns the CT hive mind generates on this story.

06/13/2017 - 10:34 |
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Anonymous

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I don’t even try making my lame pun after reading this!!

06/13/2017 - 10:54 |
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Joshua Lue

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I just spat my coffee out 😂

06/13/2017 - 10:56 |
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Anonymous

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I bet the owner was buzzing to get them off her car!

06/13/2017 - 10:56 |
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Anonymous

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Bees:where in this ladies car bz bz
Lady:

06/13/2017 - 11:46 |
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Anonymous

What a good excuse to avoid that thing.
All Jukes should be offered with bee nests to prevent them from being sold.

06/13/2017 - 10:18 |
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Noah Thorley Images

That would bee terrible.

06/13/2017 - 10:20 |
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Anonymous

The actual f*ck?

06/13/2017 - 10:22 |
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Evan H.

When you just don’t give a f about the ecosystem…

06/13/2017 - 10:22 |
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Or the car’s paint

06/13/2017 - 10:22 |
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Freddie Skeates

What a bunch of pr!cks

06/13/2017 - 10:23 |
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Deoxide

The bees must have been Richard’s bee cousins.

They hate Jukes.

06/13/2017 - 10:28 |
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