Bee attacks are usually only in horror movies or nightmares. For a Texas couple, the nightmare became true. Kristen Beauregard, 44, and her boyfriend were in their garden with their two ponies. Ms Beauregard said everything was OK until one pony started jumping. It was very frightened. Suddenly she saw a dark cloud in the sky – it was a swarm of 30,000 bees. She said: "It got all dark, like it was night time, there were so many bees."

The bees attacked the couple and their horses. The couple jumped into their pool. Ms Beauregard was stung 200 times. The pool saved their lives because the bees could not attack under the water. Kristen said: "Every time we stuck our heads out for air, they would cover us and start stinging us. We were trying to breathe and they were stinging us." The ponies got stung thousands of times. One died on the farm, the other at a clinic later that evening.