The Padres' Sunday afternoon game against the Marlins was delayed 28 minutes when a swarm of bees invaded Petco Park.
The bees arrived as the Padres were batting in the bottom of the third inning as hundreds of bees were first seen above right field.
As a few Marlins players left the field for the visitors' dugout, the bees then moved toward the infield and most eventually settled on a microphone attached to the side of the netting behind home plate, next to the Padres dugout.
Most fans seated in that half of the lower section of seats fled, but some remained to take pictures and videos with their phones. For several minutes fans all over the ballpark searched for the bees, as a pair of announcements were made that anyone with a bee allergy should stay clear of the area.
Padres players looked on from the dugout, seeming mostly bemused.
At around 4:20 p.m., a little more than halfway through the delay, a person in a protective bee suit emerged from the tunnel near the dugout, climbed a ladder and sprayed the microphone.
The person then vacuumed dead bees from atop the padding around the seats. Members of the grounds crew joined him, sweeping bee carcasses from the warning track.
The last bee delay at Petco Park had been a 52-minute interruption during a July 2, 2009, game against the Astros.
