--- description: President Barack Obama reads Where the Wild Things Are title: Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 6, 2015 6:22 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 6, 2015 6:22 PM CUT During the 2015 White House Easter Egg Roll festivities Monday, President Barack Obama started reading Maurice Sendak’s _Where the Wild Things Are —_ [per tradition](http://time.com/70570/heres-the-leader-of-the-free-world-making-monster-faces/ "undefined") — when the children listening saw a bee buzzing around and started to scream. The President kept pausing to laugh at the children’s reaction. “Wait wait wait wait,” he said, laughing. “Hold on! Hold on! You guys are wild things! You aren’t supposed to be scared of bees when you’re a wild thing!” No word on whether any representatives from the [new White House task force](http://time.com/2907230/the-white-house-wants-to-save-the-bees/ "undefined") to reverse the decline in the number of bees nationwide showed up to the South Lawn and swarmed into action. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/"},"headline":"Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll","datePublished":"2015-04-06T18:22:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:25.350Z","description":"Generating quite a buzz","url":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/","name":"Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll"}}]}] ```