So what do they have to do with smallpox vaccination scars?

Jayme Lynn Blaschke has some photos of a swarm of bees. By all means, click through on the third image to the larger version, which is really nifty-looking (or freaking scary, depending on whether bees freak you out or not). In fact, I'm going to retroactively designate that as last week's Image of the Week, since I was on hiatus. That's impressive stuff.