Story highlights Beekepers cart off the bees

But they return

(CNN) This is the story of a ferocious army determined to rescue their queen from a metal fortress.

Or, viewed another way, a swarm of bees who, for two days, followed their queen bee trapped inside a Mitsubishi Outlander.

Either way, it makes for a good tale.

The Outlander belongs to Carol Howarth, a 68-year-old grandmother, who had no idea she'd picked up a tiny winged passenger when she visited a nature reserve.

Later, when she stopped to go shopping in Haverfordwest, West Wales, the bees descended - thousands and thousands of them.

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