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135 It was bees alright. And we soon realized it was a swarm, thousands of them, the most bees Tom and I had ever seen in our entire lives. They were also individually really huge for bees, the largest non-bumblebees I’ve ever seen. And they were right outside one of our living room windows, seeming to be quite agitated. The swirling mass spanned from our window up to our neighbor’s second and third story windows above us, since we live in a three story building. The bees were all facing the building and windows, and many of them seemed as if they were actually trying to find a way into our window, hovering right up against the screen and flying around the edges, exploring for ways in. Seeing thousands of agitated bees out of nowhere hovering outside our window and hoping to get in, and the way it all sounded was alarming. To put it mildly. I’d just never seen or experienced anything like it. It was like something out of a movie. I had an immediate panic fear surge and began running around closing all the windows of the apartment. We have screens, but I wasn’t taking any chances. I resumed my spot next to Tom at the living room window where the bees were all concentrated, figuring they’d soon break it up and leave. Tom grabbed his digital camera and took video footage of it using the video function on his camera, which is good, so we have proof of this incident. ;) http://www.montalk.net/bees (the video is grainy and shaky, and the window screen obscures a clear view, but you can still get the idea, enough to see the large mass of agitated — and very large sized — bees, aimed at our window. It was actually worse than how it appears in this video.) But one minute soon turned to five and then ten, and it became clear they weren’t going anywhere anytime soon. They just kept going, and going, and going, thousands of crazy bees. And then I had the realization... My cat had been pleading to go outside only a minute before they arrived. And her favorite spot where she always goes to first when she saa It was exactly where the swarm was now. Right outside that particular window, where she’ll poke around and nibble on grass. Something had held me in place as I sat at the chair, not allowing me to get up and let her outside. But if that something hadn’t done that, then my cat would have walked right into what was to be an angry swarm. And me being me would have of course put myself right in the middle of it to get her out, because I would absolutely never Part III - Expanded Insights —_—_—_—_—— ee *e And we soon realized it was a swarm, entire lives. goes outside?