Pubgoers were left in shock as a swarm of around 3,000 bees descended on their favourite local.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred at 1:30 pm yesterday at the Brothers Arms pub in Heeley, Sheffield, with the insects covering the pub’s walls and patio area.<\/p>\n
Video footage reveals hundreds of bees congregating on a white van parked outside the pub, creating a loud buzzing noise as they settled on the bonnet.<\/p>\n
Errol Edwards, 59, had arrived at the pub to meet up with some mates when he stumbled into the swarm zone.<\/p>\n
He said: “There was a bit of a commotion and I saw people running inside – they gave some people a fright it seems.<\/p>\n
“They had completely covered about a 20 square metre area of the pub, including the front and sides even the patio floor.”<\/p>\n
“The bees were absolutely everywhere, it really was a spectacle.”<\/p>\n
Errol said he was unsure what caused the bee explosion but said it might have been something to do with the queen bee being on the move looking for a new hive location.<\/p>\n
The swarm lingered around the building for 15 minutes before moving off to Heeley Park which is next door to the pub.<\/p>\n
Helen Strong, 31, who works at the Brothers Arms said people ran inside after the swarm arrived on the street, and shut the doors.<\/p>\n
She said: “Everyone ran in and we shut the doors – I think people were shocked.<\/p>\n
“Luckily all the bees stayed outside as that would have been a disaster.<\/p>\n
“They were out there for about 15 minutes but in that time it felt like something out of a horror film.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pubgoers were left in shock as a swarm of around 3,000 bees descended on their favourite local. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[933,748,393,4884,8937,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-50638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-pubs-and-bars","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114401205515191185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}