Shortly after embarking a swarm of giant drones and their queen shows up. They inject venom into my two copper clad axedwarves who instantly die. They then tear apart four dogs by ripping the heads off on the first attack. Anyone else who was still alive got killed either from direct head being torn off or had arms/legs then head torn off. They really seem to enjoy popping heads off.
I reclaimed with 5 warriors - 2 axe, 2 spear and a sword. The drones are still there and the same thing happens. The dwarves either instantly die from venom injecting or get their heads ripped off before they can even attack. The queen has a full name and title now from dwarf/animal kills.
Time to throw more dwarves at it till it dies! I want that embark site. >.< Let's see how many more kills she can get before she's taken down.
Seems to have disappeared. Made it to summer without seeing any of the drones. Could they maybe be hiding as an ambush somewhere on the map that my dwarves didn't venture to? I've only tried reclaiming one other fort recently, and it was impossible to retake (evil land makes zombies, zombies were hiding right near the wagon). Giant bees are the new badgers for me.
Year 2, mid spring: THE BEES HAVE RETURNED AND DEMAND HEADS. 12 dwarves when they showed up (lost a bunch to a fire elemental and 2 to insanity from their friends/family getting burned).
Some drones were killed by weapon traps (the previous two embark parties' gear). One queen is lurking outside with a damaged wing, two queens are caged and three more queens are dead. How many queens do these bees have? Now there's a flaming skull party joining in. This fort has been nothing but things on fire and heads lopped off. >.< 10 dwarves remain.