Bees and cars
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Uploaded by: radiorobbe
Upload date: 4/28/2025
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At about 5:00 this afternoon while I was sitting in my backyard, I heard a steadily increasing buzzing sound above me. At first I thought it was our neighbor flying his drone over the area, but since the buzzing seemed to be coming from nearly everywhere, it must have been a huge swarm of insects. Probably bees, and according to the noise maybe even a whole colony looking for a new home. Either way, it sounded pretty impressive, if not a little threatening. My 24/7 street microphones also picked up the swarm, unfortunately mixed with the sound of passing cars.
bscross32 - 04/28/2025
Probably a rare opportunity.
Sir Howard - 04/28/2025
As someone who is allergic to bees this is absolutely freaking terrifying.
SightlessHorseman - 04/28/2025
Curious, what setup do you use for your 24:7 microphones, do you have them clipped somewhere to your window with the mic cables beeing plugged into a recorder that's also running 24/7 or how do you do it? I would love to try given that I live near a bigger street and it would be fun seeing what's going on at times, especially saturday nights :D.
LeosKhai - 04/28/2025
Ok bugs are scarry
bscross32 - 04/28/2025
They're swarming, they ain't gonna sting unless you get right up on 'em. They're more focused on finding a new place to live.
That said, I get creeped out by them too, so I'd probably be freaking out if that happened right above me. Though I did get a bunch of them on my arm once at my uncle's pool.
JeffB - 04/28/2025
Wow! That's some mad bees.
tunmi13 - 04/28/2025
Jesus. If I were there I'd be running for my damn life LOL.
Jonathan859 - 04/29/2025
Impressive for sure.
the space pup - 04/29/2025
i knew someone who was a beekeeper. She shared recordings. Deffinitely bees
GigaSound - 04/29/2025
That right there, is death, or a serious visit to the ER, covered in chitin and packin a serious stinger. And that's a hole swarm. What a unique sound you have captured.