Haight Street was host yesterday afternoon to a colony of bees finding a new home.
The bees landed some time after noon and covered the surface of a silver Volvo sedan parked in the lot at Shrader and Haight, and for a couple of hours they swarmed above the hot parking lot while passersby congregated, watched and passed. We stopped at the fence for a moment to watch them play and another pedestrian told us what was going on. "They're looking for a home," he said. "The queen's in there somewhere. They outgrew the old hive, and now half of the colony is looking for a new place to live. Watch, they're really docile when they're like this." He put out his arm for a handful of bees to perch on and they stayed there for minutes, quietly walking back and forth.
The bees landed some time after noon and covered the surface of a silver Volvo sedan parked in the lot at Shrader and Haight, and for a couple of hours they swarmed above the hot parking lot while passersby congregated, watched and passed. We stopped at the fence for a moment to watch them play and another pedestrian told us what was going on. "They're looking for a home," he said. "The queen's in there somewhere. They outgrew the old hive, and now half of the colony is looking for a new place to live. Watch, they're really docile when they're like this." He put out his arm for a handful of bees to perch on and they stayed there for minutes, quietly walking back and forth.
