Bees swarm hot dog stand in Times Square

How many bees is too many bees? I am not 100 percent sure, but there sure were a lot of bees on this hot dog stand in Times Square.

Twitter was abuzz with bee chatter on Tuesday after an enormous number of bees overtook a Sabrett's umbrella on 43rd Street in Manhattan. According to an expert cited by Gothamist, the bees were probably "expats from a nearby beehive" who decided to park close to home and wait for their queen. Very feminist!

After news of the bees spread throughout the city's media hive mind, the New York Police Department roped off part of the street, then began to suck the bees up with a special bee vacuum. (In fact, the NYPD has long retained a bee cop.)

Several outlets, including Reuters and Yahoo, ran live broadcasts of the bees. Those broadcasts have since concluded, but you can still watch them if you really want to. A better idea, though, would be reading everyone's bee tweets, which — since we are all starved for joy every second of every day — are a real treat.

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Bees: Bees are dying at an alarming rate Also bees: Let’s group in the thousands on top of a hot dog stand umbrella

David Sims

maybe the bees are here to fix the subway

Sarah Mimms

TFW you graduate the police academy only to fid yourself vacuuming bees off a hotdog stand in Times Square

Tom Kludt

The Times Square Hot Dog Stand Bees are enjoying their viral moment, but I hope they acknowledge the pioneers that paved the way for them: Pizza Rat, the llamas, that bat that Manu Ginobili swatted out of mid-air

Oliver Willis

this just in: the times square bees have received immunity from robert mueller and will be testifying about trump

sonia saraiya

let the bees have times square

Heth Benderson

I have sucked up the bees, that were on the hotdogs and which you were probably saving for the plague. forgive me, they were scaring off tourists in Times Square.

Jerry Seinfeld, any interest in this premise for Bee Movie 2?