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00:00Hordes of bees in New York City?

00:02This is unbee-lievable.

00:04Welcome to Weird But True, your honeypot for the strangest stories from the post.

00:09From extreme heat to swarms of insects, the Big Apple has been hit with a barrage of biblical

00:14plagues.

00:15What's next?

00:16Frogs?

00:17Thankfully, the city doesn't look like the movie Magnolia.

00:21Not yet, at least.

00:22How do frogs fall into the sky?

00:28However, on June 12th, pedestrians were shocked to see a tornado of bees in midtown Manhattan,

00:34just downstairs from our studio.

00:36Just my luck.

00:37NYU student Hilma Mamoon shared the scary scene on TikTok with the caption, POV, the actualization

00:44of my biggest fear, random bee swarm in New York City.

00:48So what's going on here?

00:50Turns out, New York City is home to 775 beehives.

00:54And no, I'm not talking about Beyonce's fans.

00:58The city legalized hobby beekeeping in 2010, and since then there's been a surge in corporate

01:06rooftop beehives.

01:07Swarming behavior occurs when the queen bee is looking for a new home or a new source of

01:12food, and summer is the peak season for it.

01:15One TikToker joked, their lease was probably up, and the landlord hiked the rent.

01:20Sounds like she's voting for Zoron.

01:22To find out more, the post chatted with two apiarists, which is a fancy word for beekeeper.

01:27Nick Hoefle said, swarming is very regular in nature, it's just easier to spot because

01:32of a lack of greenery in a big city.

01:34Meanwhile, his colleague at the New York Bee Club, Nick Rozak, called the swarms feral,

01:39and blamed lazy beekeepers for not keeping their bugs in line.

01:43Common tricks include using pheromones to lure the swarms to a specific location, or using

01:48smoke to calm the bee's instinct to sting.

01:51Across the country, other strange swarms are blowing people's minds.

01:55In Ohio, it's mating season for mayflies.

01:58Each day, the remnants of their insect orgy are stuck to every surface in the town of Port

02:02Clinton.

02:03Nasty little boggers.

02:04Down in the Sunshine State, a different kind of swarm-covered satellite beach.

02:08They're called sand fleas, but they're actually small crustaceans.

02:13In other words, visit Florida and you just might come back with crabs.

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