It's not every day walk down the street and see a swarm of bees.

But this is the sight that greeted one Greerton resident yesterday morning.

Hollie Jade says she was walking out of her yard on Chadwick Road to 'find bees everywhere”.

'It was a bit of an experience.”

She took a photo at about 8.30am of bees swarming all over a blue car parked on the side of the road.

'They were there for a few hours until someone got in contact with a local beekeeper.

'He then took all the bees, I had left home as he started to take them but they were all gone, bar a few flying around when I got home about two hours later.”

Swarming is a process in which a new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees.

In a prime swarm, about 60 per cent of the worker bees leave the original hive location with the old queen.

This swarm can contain thousands to tens of thousands of bees. Swarming is mainly a spring phenomenon, usually within a two- or three-week period depending on the locale, but occasional swarms can happen throughout the producing season.