60,000 bees removed from one man's home

[Lilaena De'Ville]

http://www.wyff4.com/news/16613800/detail.html


Jones said it wasn’t a bee sting or the buzzing sound that tipped him off; it was a stain on the wall downstairs.

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

So I guess we know where all the honeybees have gone, M. Night.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

This sounds like a bad Sci-Fi Channel movie waiting to happen. ;)

[Kelly Perris]

Mmm...honey. :p

[Captain Untouchable]

That's properly weird...and possibly one of my worst nightmares. >_<

[Morgan Evanar]

Honey bees are in huge demand since something seems to be killing them.

Bees are awesome.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I like my women like I like my coffee

COVERED IN BEES

[Crystal]

I'm terrified of bees, but free honey leaking from the wall seems pretty awesome.

[Liam Jinn]

You know, when I see something leaking from my walls, my first instinct is to stick my finger in it and taste it too. :yum

Or not.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I like my women like I like my coffee

COVERED IN BEES
for the win!!!

[Razielle Alastor]

Bees are awesome.. but I wouldn't want them in my house, for sure..|I

[Jan Claasen du Toit]

You know, when I see something leaking from my walls, my first instinct is to stick my finger in it and taste it too. :yum

Or not.

Yeah thats what I was thinking too. Of all the things that might be seeping from my wall, I don't think something edible or pleasant to the tongue would be one.

[Banner Laverick]

At least it was honey and not....BLOOD!

This happened to my Grandma, when she lived in her old house. Luckily I was still in the sac when it happened. >_>

[Wyl Staedtler]

Wait, what? Blood came out of your grandma's walls? :eek

[Banner Laverick]

No, her back room was full of bees.

Blood would be awesome though XD

[Wyl Staedtler]

Ohhhhhh. Okay, way less scary. ^_^;

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm guessing it smelled and looked like honey, so he then tasted it. Who knows though. :p

Still, its pretty incredible. Hopefully that house isn't the one place where bees can survive, and that evicting them hasn't sent them all back to the places where the bees are dying. That would be tragic. I'm picturing it as a Lifetime movie about bees.

I'm also pretty tired. :zzz

[Jaime Tomahawk]

Oh for Lord's sake Chris I for one expected you to have your epiglottis full of bees and to be declaring it loud and proud.

[Yeart Quenn]

I dunno what the fuss is all about.... that's the population of one beehive. They're making it sound like 60,000 is some massive amount of bees, whereas it's just a normal sized hive. They probably swarmed, and ended up selecting this man's house as their new home. That sort of thing happens fairly often.

And the whole fuss about bees dying - it happens. Wouldn't be the first time in history that there's a bee virus going around, my grandfather told me there was a similar epidemic back in the 20s. We've got it over here but thankfully our own hives survived the winter except for one.

[Taya Robbins]

This happened to us one house ago. They built in one of the outside walls on the second floor. Thankfully my dad noticed the bees swarming around outside the house before honey started dripping through.

They never came inside the house. But if you went into the closet in the master bedroom, you could hear them. Especially if you shut the door. It was somewhat creepy.

[Banner Laverick]

^that sounds like something out of a horror movie. The evil step-mother locks you in the bee closet!

A few years ago, my mum and I went to a yard sale at a house covered in those japanese lady bugs. THAT was creepy!

[Yog]

I never had problem with bees, but I had a hornet nest outside the house one summer. The nest was like a golf ball at first, and you could only see 1-2 hornets peacefully flying around once in a while. "Big deal", I thought. "I'll let them be alone, and they probably won't bother me". Man, was I wrong about that. About 2 monhs later, the golf ball had grown to a bowling ball, with probably a good thousand hornets. They were really active at noon flying around when it was hot, and they just got more and more agressive. I had to get it removed.

One night, when the hornets were sleeping, I dressed up in plastic (from trash bags, so they could not sting me). I sneaked up to the nest while the hornets were inside, and brought a spray can of some industrial insect pesticide. Powerful stuff. Would give Shelob a bad headache. I located the opening of the nest, and gave a good long burst with the spray, filling the nest with the poison. "Pshshshshhhh-fshhshshshss!". One after the other, the wasps were crawling and dripping out of the nest in chemicals, like some R-rated sci-fi horror movie. Alien vs Predator - Requiem had nothing on this. It was quite disgusting, and made me feel bad about it :x

The lesson of this is, don't wait if you get some bug infestation. Deal with it right away, because it is only going to get worse.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Oh yeah, we've had wasps trying to build homes right outside our front door a few times and we've always taken care of it before it got bigger than barely noticable. They're not something you want hanging around.

[Jaime Tomahawk]

Wasps + aerosols = fireballs of awesome

[Park Kraken]

We've never had bee problems except at my grandfather's house. At our house all we get are the occasional wasp and dirtdogger nests (cousin of the wasp that doesn't sting), and on rare occasion, a hornet nest.