I do not know if this is El Niño related but there have been an increase in bees this year. Yellow jackets have been eating fruit while on the bushes. Garden Valley and even Boise, Idaho had an increase in bees. In Boise, there has been an increase in calls to exterminators and some people have been hauled out in the ambulance. The bees, mainly Yellow jackets, have been mean, they sting people even when they are not being bothered.-- Pepe Barton (email address was lost).