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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: josbees on June 16, 2008, 11:23:48 PM

Title: Who needs hives when you've got a houseful!
Post by: josbees on June 16, 2008, 11:23:48 PM
This just in from Fox News WYFF-TV:

A North Carolina man says his house was so overrun with bees that the walls ooze honey.

Mark Jones, of Concord, N.C., was tipped off to the visitors' presence after discovering a strange substance on a downstairs wall. After tasting it, he realized it was honey, WYFF-TV reported.

Jones sought the help of beekeepers, who removed approximately 60,000 of the buzzing nuisances and their hives using a vacuum, according to WYFF-TV. Another 1,000 remain inside.

"It didn't seem right to my husband or myself to kill them," Jones' wife Amychelle told WYFF-TV.

The remaining bees are expected to fly elsewhere, as they have no hive or queen bee, beekeepers said.

Click here for more on this story from WYFF4.com 

http://www.wyff4.com/news/16613800/detail.html
Title: Re: Who needs hives when you've got a houseful!
Post by: mgates61 on June 16, 2008, 11:32:13 PM
Unintentional apiary ?????   60,00 bees would be a great removal.

Where is JP when U need him ????

Mike
Title: Re: Who needs hives when you've got a houseful!
Post by: budhanes on June 17, 2008, 08:15:40 AM
"After tasting it, he realized it was honey," 

Was this Cousin Eddie???

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