en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honey_bee)
quite literally thousands and thousands of them, bouncing off my head, in my face - I have to admit I was rather scared, but it seems they are 'not necessarily dangerous' according to something else I read. Not
necessarily. I doesn't state whether they like a cyclist hurtling through the middle of them though.
I emerged unscathed. If I open the window I can hear them right at the end of the street.