Swarm of bees commandeers mother's car

PLEASANTON, Calif., April 6 (UPI) -- A Northern California woman's car was taken over by a swarm of bees, a pest controller said.

Mark Sherrill of Clark Pest Control told the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times a woman in Pleasanton, who did not wished to be named, called him a few weeks ago with the curious report.

She had been running errands and returned to find bees buzzing around her car. After they seemed to be gone, she picked up her sons from school.

Later the children noticed the insects, clustered into a corner.

The driver stopped at a flower shop and called Clark Pest Control but did not panic, she said.

Sherrill, who wanted to avoid killing the bees, called a beekeeper, who sucked them up unharmed with a vacuum pump.