We saw this unusual and HUGE bees nest this morning at the canyon. Actually not a nest, (Where is the nest??) but their pure white honeycomb and THOUSANDS of bees. Not sure if they were africanized though…hope not! They were just 3 feet off the trail and could have easily swarmed us! 
(Without the slomo effect, the actual video is much shorter since we didn’t want to stick around more than few seconds.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7159820306457213524&hl=en
Just for relative perspective, that honeycomb was a good 2 feet long! I’m sure it’s been there for a quite a while since those take time to build. I never saw it before and I’m on that trail a lot, but today we stopped to check the camera mounted to my friend’s helmet–a spot I never really stop at–and I looked up and there it was!
I’m having a hard time getting the proper perspective on how large the hive is without some type of reference.
Can you take another video with your head right next to the hive so we can get a better perspective? Sound would be nice too…
Haha nice try. Use the bees as the reference! There are THOUSANDS in view on the video, so try to focus on just one. That should give you a good idea. 
Bee-sides, I would bee a fool to do that bee-cause it’s none of my bees-ness! So stop bee-rating and bee-smirching!
Thats crazy! I had a huge bees nest by my house when I was a little kid. About the size of a basketball.
Homemade flamethrower 
If they were africanized I don’t think you’d be around to post about it.
so you made honey sandwhiches right?
no?
=You should try to eat some of the honey comb, but not like this.
Quoted from that article:
<Gentle Africanized bees Not all Africanized hives are defensive; some are quite gentle, which gives a beginning point for beekeepers to breed a gentler stock. This has been done in Brazil, where bee incidents are much less common than they were during the first wave of the Africanized bees’ colonization. Now that the Africanized bee has been “re-domesticated”, it is considered the bee of choice for beekeeping in Brazil. It is better adapted to the tropics and so it is healthier and more industrious than European bees.>
Bees
If they were honey bees they are usually pretty calm unless you poke at the nest. If you contact a local beekeeper he/she would probably collect the swarm and add it to their bee yard. This would keep the trail safe and help the bees find a better home.
Beekeepers are having a tough time lately so a batch of free bees would help 'em out.
JD
Tumwater WA
a keeper of bees
eew, that’s kind a gross, how they were all swarming like that