Bee Constructive Screensaver

I am sitting in a Caribou Coffee shop, feeling very disturbed by a couple of bees. I'm wondering whether they have a hole in the window somewhere, because there are two bees stuck inside. One is either a hornet or a wasp. I don't know how to tell the difference, I just know that this is one of the kinds that stings over and over. The other bee is one of those huge black and yellow fuzzy kind.

Really the bees aren't bothering me much, it's just a little alarming to have them so close by. Still, on the upside, they gave me an idea for a cool screensaver.

A little while ago, I looked at a cartoon screensaver featuring a couple cute bees buzzing around a flower together, enjoying each other's company. That animated screensaver was obviously meant to be cute rather than realistic, which makes sense... most people aren't exactly huge fans of real bees.

Still, I think there's potential there for a neat nature screensaver featuring bees. What I was thinking of is another screensaver where the screen doesn't blank out, the desktop background is initially maintained. When the screensaver switches on, a bee would slowly buzz onto the screen, landing somewhere. Maybe it could sniff at the icons, or examine the dock at the bottom.

After a bit the first bee would be joined by others, and here's where my favorite part of the idea comes in: the bees would start building a hive.

They would probably start at a top corner of the computer desktop, slowly covering the screen in a honeycomb pattern. Depending on how long the screensaver is left to sit, the entire screen could be coated in the new hive. Then the bees could move in and out of it like a nature show until the screensaver was disturbed.

I like the idea of this screensaver as a realistic nature screensaver, but it doesn't necessarily need to be live action video. Probably many people would find a screensaver like that unappealing, or even frightening, so it could make sense to do the screensaver in a cartoon style instead. This should probably not be done in so cartoony a style as the bee screensaver I mentioned before, I don't think the hive-building would work in that liberal an interpretation. I'm sure there's some middle ground though.

Either way, I think this screensaver idea brings up some interesting screensaver possibilities. I don't know that it's worth the trouble to create, but it is fun to imagine.