| A large swarm of bees set up shop Tuesday morning on a palm tree outside Rosenberg's T-Mobile store, located at the Southwest Freeway and Highway 36.
As of Thursday, the swarm is still hanging out minding their own business.
Senior retail sales representative Carlos Ferrer said the bees seemed to have made a return visit. Three months ago, a sizable colony of the insects was wrapped around a telephone pole on the north side of the building.
"Then they disappeared," Ferrer recalled. "This morning there they are again. It was wild."
T-Mobile customer Dexter Hill of Missouri City had been in the store for about an hour watching other customers make their way into the building, all the while oblivious to the bees. Once they were told about the hive, each made a "bee-line" to their car, said Hill with a chuckle.
Hill, who also admitted not noticing the swarm at first, said with a nervous laugh, "I don't think I want to go back outside."
As customer Richard Carranza of Needville left the store, he stopped nonchalantly and took a picture of the swarm with his cell phone.
"I've seen bigger in houses, but not on trees, like this," he said. " They're harmless unless you mess with them."
Inside, Ferrer had tried calling a local exterminator but was told they didn't have the necessary equipment to eradicate the bees.
Appealing to any beekeepers out in the community, Ferrer said, "Come and get them."
Just as quickly as the bees appeared, a two-foot by two-foot scented box emerged this morning on the tree.
Omar Lopez, a T-Mobil sales representative said the bees are "slowly entering the nest."
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