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Remember the movie back in the 70’s called The Swarm. Killer bees were everywhere. Disaster was imminent. Bees needed to be eradicated to protect humans. Is that what happened here in town? Was the children’s museum full of killer bees? Inquiring minds want to know.

It seems as if the local children’s museum (let’s just say The Discovery Museum) had an exhibit of live bees for the past years. The hive was visible through glass inside the museum, and the bees would fly out to the world via a small hole in the back of the museum. So far, so good.

Unfortunately the bees would travel close to the outdoor portion of a restaurant as they headed out to see the world. Since people love to eat some sweet things, bees are naturally curious (especially those killer bees). An anonymous tipster feels that the restaurant (let’s just say C & O) was not happy with the bee traffic zone which had become worse as the restaurant expanded the outdoor seating.

When little Johnny walked in to the museum the other day he pointed at the hive he said, “Mommy…why aren’t the bees moving?” It seems as if the entire hive had been taken out (as they say down by the woodshed) last night. Was some insecticide involved? Why did the bees stop buzzing?

What really happened to the bees? Will we ever know? Will the village get up in Frankenstein-like arms like they did over the local cat killer? My gut instinct says no one in the village will care, except poor little Johnny.