I think the story was actually broadcast from your hometown! You don't sound phobic, though, so it's okay. They're called zombees because they swarm around lights for about 2 days and then die. I think they're honeybees, the kind I'm allergic to. I like the fat, fuzzy, clumsy bumblebees in my garden (have no idea if I'm allergic because they're nice and don't sting me). I once had a wasp crawl up the leg of my jeans and sting me 5 times - I had to strip my jeans off in the middle of my backyard! - but my leg didn't swell, so apparently I'm not allergic to them. But the zombees, omg, I'm afraid they'd kill me before they die, just out of spite.

I will think about pretty gardens today. I'll be working in mine, bees be damned. :)