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20,000 Bees Swarm Over Car Looking For Their Queen

A swarm of 20,000 bees descended on a grandmother’s car and followed her for two days after their Queen reportedly became trapped in the boot. The “brown splodge” that was covering the car was spotted by a passing National Park ranger who called in beekeepers to gather it up The Mirror reports: Hundreds of the insects had flown down onto the silver Mitsubishi Outlander, covering and entire side of the boot. A passing National Park ranger spotted the bizarre “brown splodge” parked outside a pub and called in two beekeepers to gather it up. The car’s owner Carol Howarth returned to drive off with no idea of the sticky situation her car had been in before driving off. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park ranger Tom Moses saw the swarm on the car parked outside the Three Crowns pub in Haverfordwest. Tom, 41, told Wales Online: “It was spectacular. I was driving through when I spotted the big brown splodge. “A lot of people were really amazed by it, cars were slowing down and people were taking pictures of it. “I was a little bit concerned, with it being in the middle of town outside a pub, that someone might do something [...]