Once in South Africa I was watching a hive of Scuts that I had by my garage. They were used to people, and fairly gentle, and standing there something seemed wrong. Then it occured to me, with my jaw dropping and eyes big, that they were all coming in, and none were going out at all. It was warm, noonish and (as I realized in one of those flashes) unusually still, no bugs chirping, etc.. In that moment of surrealism, I told my wife that she had better take the clothes off the line, and I showed her what the bees were doing. We spoke briefly about all those stories we had heard about animals predicting earthquakes and such, and just as I was opening the door for her to enter with the last of the laundry, one of those South African hail storms hit. Wind to bend trees over, loudness, then hard rain. No earthquake, and the storm soon passed, but, as they say, I'm now a believer. Anyone else? Regards Tim Vaughan