I am about 30 km from Surin and tonight there has been a massive swarm of bees appearing around our house. They seem to be attracted to the lights.

 

I just arrived from Chiang Mai today and my wife tells me that this is the first night she has seen them.

 

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Are you going to keep the bees or try to get someone to take them away? 

 

2 hours ago, IsaanAussie said:

Are you going to keep the bees or try to get someone to take them away? 

 

They were gone when we woke up this morning. Very strange occurrence indeed.

I believe when bees swarm looking for a new site, they send out scouts looking for food. Maybe they didn't find what they were looking for and so moved on. Could have just been taking a rest I suppose. Bee keepers use lemongrass oil to attract bees to an empty hive. If you have it growing nearby it may have attracted them.

 

Yes we are growing a little lemongrass but they were nowhere near it. As I said they were attracted to the lights we have outside. They were not your average honeybee but much larger. I have never seen any killer bees before only the traps for them in Mexico, but that's what I first thought of. Strange that they came swarming at night and was gone as soon as we turned the lights off.

You are lucky to have all your plants fertilised! Just make sure they don't nest and at night turn the lights off and secure any pets/livestock

Are you sure they were bees and not some other insect? 

Strange,,,are you sure they are bees & not a kind of wasp ?

Bees are a very regimented species & very rare to be out & about after dark unless their hive disturbed

Most likely their hive was disturbed, there is a lot of poison/slash and burn (smokey fires) going on around where i live. (I still don't understand why, as no new crops will be planted, all ground cover has gone.  I still  seem to be the only one who has kept fallen leafs to rot into the ground, and ground cover grasses , am i doing something wrong ?)

Giant honeybees in our village.

The comb they built under a neighbours front porch

I've seen many of those giant honeybee hives as there are many there in Chiang Mai. And I can tel you it takes quite some time for them to build a hive the size shown in the pics...

 

I will leave this here:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/giant-hornets-have-invaded-washington-state-and-theyre-hungry-for-honeybees/ar-BBYhwjv?li=BBnbcA1