Bees are creating major problems for a Westside Albuquerque neighborhood.
In fact, when a KOB crew showed up to cover this story, the homeowner was wearing a bee keeper suit and his neighbors were furious at him.
Folks in Ventana Ranch called KOB and said they were being attacked by blood-thirsty bees living in their neighbor's backyard.
It was far worse than it sounded.
"Is the bee still in your hair?" shrieked Jo Blackstone, helping a friend as bees swarmed the pair on Sunday.
"They're on me too," shouted KOB photojournalist Andy Morgan.
Believe it: using the phrase "under attack" to describe this Albuquerque neighborhood is no exaggeration.
"This is every day for you guys?" asked KOB reporter Caleb James as bees swarmed.
"Today alone I have been stung 5 times," Blackstone said.
Blackstone's life has turned to chaos ever since a swarm of bees started attacking people and pets in her neighborhood.
"We've been trapped inside all day," next-door-neighbor Sarah Emms said. "Yeah, we haven't left the house at all."
Emms is deathly allergic to bees—she won't leave the house after her little dog Oreo was swarmed and barely escaped with his life.
"Now I'm scared," Emms said.
So where are the bees coming from?
Blackstone snapped pics of two giant beehives in the backyard of a house three-doors down.
"Can we talk to you about your bees?" reporter James shouted at a man outside the house wearing a full bee suit. "They're ruining everyone's lives."
The man came around his home from the back yard covered in bees, and they attacked.
The latest victim -- KOB's photojournalist Andy Morgan.
"I got stung shooting your story bro," Morgan said.
The man tells KOB he's been ordered to remove his hives—and says he has -- although evidence suggested otherwise. There were countless bees swarming him—protected by a bee suit—on Sunday.
"Your neighbors hate your bees!" shouted James.
The man said he removed most of the bees Sunday morning, and only had one "bucket" of bees to move off the property by the end of the day, though there were still bees swarming him and the neighborhood.
For Blackstone it feels like being held hostage.
"We have been trapped in our house because it's gotten so extreme," said Blackstone.
KOB is working to learn more about the origin of the bees, because they appear far more aggressive than your everyday honey bee.
KOB has learned the Ventana Ranch Neighborhood Association is cracking down on the bees—telling that man they need to go.
He tells KOB he's taking them to a farm in Corrales.
