Thousands of bees descended on a Morecambe car dealership meaning beekeepers had to be called out to help them buzz off.
Staff couldn't bee-lieve their eyes when the huge swarm came out of the sky and landed on a Ford Mondeo on display outside Pye Motors showroom on Ovangle Road on Wednesday afternoon.
They called out a team from White Lund family firm Cross Apiary who came out to capture the bees.
WATCH the swarm of bees at Pye Motors on Wednesday afternoon.
"It was crazy", said Jen Hyslop, marketing assistant at Pye Motors.
"One of our staff saw them swarming out of the sky and they settled on a Mondeo.
"The (beekeepers) had to find the Queen bee and then the rest followed. It was very clever.
"It's never happened before. We've taken it off sale!"
Tom Cross, from Cross Apiary, said that when a swarm moves, it's because the Queen has told the bees that their hive is too congested, and then leaves with half the hive.
LISTEN to our interview with Tom Cross
"When you see clusters of swarms, they are just waiting for scout bees to return from looking to see if they can find a place big enough for a hive," said Tom.
"That's what they were doing on the car on Pye Motors, they were waiting for scout bees to come to a decision.
"Don't be afraid of swarms, they're not interested in you. They are only interested in moving homes.
"We spent a bit of time trying to find the Queen, we couldn't find her, so we had to carefully scoop the bees up and scoop them into the box.
"We did eventually find the Queen but she flew off, but she did fly back to the hive.
"We've moved them to our quarantine apiary for three weeks to make sure there's no disease in them. We have an apiary at Quernmore, and our quarantine apiary is separate, well away from our main apiary but close enough so we can check it."
Tom said they have been dealing with an "unreal" number of call-outs to bee swarms at the moment. Just hours after the Pye Motors incident, they were also called out to a swarm at Forton near Lancaster.
"It's the hot weather. They won't swarm on a rainy day. All this warm weather could definitely be contributing to the amount of swarms we've had.
"This year has been unreal. Beekeepers are running out of equipment. We're lucky we have our own bee equipment store."
Tom, his brother Jack and dad John, and Chris Humphries run Cross Apiary, now in its second year, and they have been keeping bees for three-and-a-half years.
Cross Apiary sells bee equipment and clothing, as well as honey produced by their own bees.
"I've always wanted to do (beekeeping) but I went to university and I was working away, and because you have to check on the bees every week, it wasn't viable to do it," said Tom.
"Now I'm back in Morecambe, my dad, my brother and I decided to give beekeeping a go, and I absolutely loved it."
One drawback from beekeeping is the amount of stings, which Tom said happens all the time, including at Pye Motors.
"Jack didn't wear a full suit, he was in shorts, so he got stung on his kneecap and it's really swollen up. But he's fine.
"Bee stings are small things but they pack a punch!"
Tom said he'd never seen a swarm of bees at a car showroom before, and joked: "Pye Motors said they used a special kind of wax, I just didn't realise they used bees to apply it!"
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