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Honey wall tips man off to 60,000 bees

CONCORD, N.C. (UPI) -- A North Carolina man says he found out he was sharing his home with about 60,000 bees after he noticed honey oozing out a wall.

Mark Jones said he learned about the bees after tasting a mysterious liquid coming out of a wall in his Concord, N.C., home.

He was surprised to find out the liquid was honey produced by thousands of bees living behind the wall, WYFF-TV in Greenville, S.C., reported.

"I came over here and dipped my finger in it and tasted it. Sure enough, it was honey coming out of the wall," Jones said.

Beekeepers removed most of the insects with a vacuum Sunday after Jones and his wife decided it wasn't right to kill them, the newspaper said.

Keepers said the leftover bees will leave soon because they no longer have a hive there.



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This news arrived on: 06/17/2008
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06-20-2008 10:57
Trialnderr wrote:

Bees/honey

I'd be interested in the temperture change of the room before and after the extraction. I always thought they bees kept their hive environment at a constant tempature.



06-20-2008 10:13
Anita wrote:

Bees in my kitchen wall

well when i lived in Ohio i had kept hearing bees in my wall of my kitchen well sorry to say i was scared and i did get help to get them out 60,000 would drive me bonkers i didnt have alot but they were kinda loud to where you could hear them in the next room.



06-20-2008 09:56
Eva Holt wrote:

Bees in my house.

I came home one day, a few years ago, after picking up my daughter from school and notice some honey bees flying around an unused cable hole that my ex-husband had drilled and never filled back in. It led directly into my livingroom. It was close to the floor so I thought it was covered by a carpet. Boy,was I wrong! When I opened my door to my livingroom, there were bees everywhere!!!! My sofa, the floor, the windows, my lamps were covered in bees!!! I had no intentions of killing them so, I walked carefully to the window, (I have no fear of bees and I didn't want to step on them.) With them crawling all over my hands and feet, I opened the window and removed the screen. They began to fly outside. Some of them were dying so I tried to work quickly to get the rest outside. My 14 year old thought it was great having all these bees in the house!(She's a nature lover as am I!)She was helping. She came through it great except for one minor sting from accidentally putting her hand on one when she was crawling on the floor. With the help of a dustpan and jars, we finally got them all out. They must have gone elsewhere because we never saw them again. I filled in the hole so it wouldn't happen again. She had something to talk about the next day at school! That was quite exciting!



06-20-2008 09:24
T. Ryan wrote:

bees/honey

Buzzing? i had a bees nest in the thousands in my attic above my bedroom one time and all we heard was a scratching sound. We thought it was mice. The bees actually worked their way through and i had a bedroom full of bees when returning from work one day. Yikes!



06-20-2008 07:53
johnnysgirl wrote:

bees

Seems possible but I can't figure out how the near constant buzzing from the bees didn't alert him to the hive before he found the oozing honey?? I would imagine 60,000 bees would be quite loud...still if it's true it's nice they didn't kill them, especially with the depleting honey bee supply in America.




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