Shocked pub goers rushed for cover when a swarm of around 3,000 bees descended on their favorite watering hole.

Shocking video footage shows hundreds of the flying critters then gathering on a white van which was parked outside the pub with a loud buzzing filling the air as they settled on the bonnet.

They have long been stereotyped as wolf-whistling, footie-loving blokes who race through our streets in diesel-guzzling white vans. The cliched view is that handymen are junk food-scoffing ...