Hornet and Bee's

Last year I was going to a gathering of MINI owners for a dinner about 45 minutes from my home. Not wanting to show up in a car that had a weeks worth of bugs and dust I go out and wash and shine the "Master Blaster". The car looks great and with my wife in the passenger seat we head off. It was extremely hot that day so she convinces me to turn on the AC something that I normally don't do and a few minutes latter with two Semi trucks to my right and a car behind me I see a cloud moving from right to left across our path. It was a swarm of bees that hit all four vehicles. Driving forward hitting the windshield wipers because there was no seeing out the front window we finally got clear and pressed on. Upon getting to dinner and parking I notice that both cowl covers on the R56 have a pool about eight inches across of honey and from the front starting about four inches and tapering off to the back is a solid line of honey down both sides. To say that it was a sticky situation would have been an understatement. This past weekend going again for a MINI gathering down the same road and about the same location except this time my wife is riding with my daughter in her MINI and I hear a thump as a bug hits my mirror followed by the feeling of it being on my arm. Looking down its yellow and black two flicks latter it and its stinger which were pumping into my arm it's on down the road. I guess that its about a 2-0 score for the Bee's. :blush2:

 

Almost as bad as the love bugs in northern Florida...

 

Yes the bugs can be bad in the central valley as I have explained and I got the point but at least it does not look like this at the end of every day during May....