A little girl made a horrifying discovery in her bedroom wall which is truly the stuff of nightmares.
Mum Ashley Class had been trying to help her daughter sleep, as the little girl kept complaining of hearing ‘monsters’ moving around in her walls.
But as the noise persisted, she investigated with a thermal imaging camera which revealed a huge swarm of bees living in her walls.
Swarms of bees spilled out as a hole was cut into the wall, revealing a massive bee colony thought to be made up of about 50,000 of the insects, as well as huge swathes of honeycomb.
Sharing the journey of discovering and removing the bee colony on TikTok, Ashley described the find as ‘what nightmares are made of’.
Describing the first day of removal, she said: ‘Day 1: Beekeeper removed 20,000 bees and 45kg of honeycomb from the wall.
‘He found the queen and is able to safely take the hive to a new home.’
Usually, when a queen is found and taken from a hive, the rest of the bees follow in order to protect her, meaning this is the key part of removing bees from somewhere they don’t belong.
Another 20,000 bees were removed from the walls on the second day, and explaining why she and her family didn’t notice the bees before, she explained: ‘It only takes a couple of bees and a swarm that you might not be able to see to become a colony of 50,000 bees.
‘The beekeeper didn’t know how many bees were inside the wall when he decided to open it up, even when the thermal imaging showed there was a lot of activity.
‘He had greatly underestimated, but it’s not his fault as it’s not usual that bees bury downwards.
‘They had got into a dime sized hole in our chimney, and there’s an old clay pipe where it used to heat all the different rooms 100 years ago, and they got into it and buried down next to my daughter’s room.’
In total the beekeeper has removed more than 45kg of honeycomb from the walls – and it had to be ‘triple bagged’ in order to remove it due to the sheer weight of the wax and honey.
But the family’s insect woes didn’t end there, as they later found a second colony with even more bees hidden inside the walls.
Once all of the bees were removed, Ashley’s home was left dripping with honey – a truly bizarre sight.
And to make matters worse, her insurance company said they wouldn’t cover the damages.
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