Swarms of European honey bees have been taking over trees, outdoor patios, children's play equipment and letterboxes as they migrate for spring.
Toowoomba father-of-three Garth Hamilton spotted a swarm underneath his children's trampoline.
"As I kept going closer and closer to the trampoline, it got thicker and thicker," Mr Hamilton, the Member for Groom, said.
"It was really lucky, because minutes earlier I had sent the kids out to burn some energy on the trampoline. Lucky they didn't."
Mr Hamilton asked on social media what to do with the bees, where he was inundated with replies.
"It's not as difficult to move them as you might think," he said.
"They were hanging upside-down on the trampoline, and a beekeeper came round, gave it a little bit of a tap, and they all fell off straight into a box.
"We checked that the queen was in the box, then that was it."
Many Southern Queenslanders have experienced a similar thing.
President of the Southern Beekeepers Association Glen Tucker said European honey bees were migrating for spring.
"The swarms vary from staying half an hour to one or two days," Mr Tucker said.
"Over months, they'll then form a big hive."
Mr Tucker advised anyone who spotted a swarm to ask a nearby professional beekeeper before attempting to move them.
However, he said swarms were normally docile when migrating.
"There's not a great danger when they are swarming, it's when they have a larger hive is when they become more aggressive."
Bee boom during wet and warm weather
Secretary of Queensland Beekeepers Association Jo Martin said warmer weather and unseasonal rain had led to a boom in European honey bees.
"They're coming out of a period of a long, cold, and very wet winter," she said.
"We have seen some increases in rainfall and the environment is responding.
"As soon as trees start to blossom, it signals the start of those worker bees and Queen to build those population numbers."
Many smaller swarms are bees that have broken from their original hive due to overcrowding.
"We're certainly experiencing a large number of phone calls from the public reporting swarms," she said.
Ms Martin said a recent increase in the number of amateur beekeepers across Queensland could also be another reason why so many swarms were migrating.
Although Varroa mite has never reached Queensland, she said beekeepers were heading into a concerning time of year.
"It's a very tricky balance of managing the conditions this year. Varroa mite remains our core concern, but also the La Niña summer," she said.
"Rain events are definitely welcomed after so many years of drought and bushfires, but intense rain can be known to wash out food sources for bees.
"Over the past 12 weeks, we've also developed a better understanding of where the Varroa mite is and contained it."
Ms Martin said the best thing beekeepers could do was to continue their pest and surveillance checks.
She said it was important to report findings to the Department of Agriculture, even if there was a negative result.
