Bee swarm populations exploded in late March, Booth said, and nobody knows why. Swarms have increased at a rate of "biblical proportions," Booth said, and the bees are setting records.

"This has never happened before," he said. "A bomb went off—a bee bomb."

Exterminators are seeing 20 to 40 percent more swarms than they’ve ever seen, Booth said. The current estimated population in Arizona alone is 4 million to 8 million wild swarms, with anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 bees per swarm.

And they’re damn mean.

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