Five years ago, while I was driving one of the blighters landed on my windscreen. I pushed the wiper lever to rinse, expecting it to swipe him away.

Instead it beat him down to my air intake vent, and he was sucked into the AC system.

I made sure to warn the mechanic of what lurked down there when I brought the car for her annual service.

Our invasion was traced back to 2004 when a queen was supposedly brought from China to France through the port of Bordeaux. The spread is very much not controlled in Mediterranean countries, but I believe beekeepers have adapted.