First of all if my ceiling was dripping honey then I will immediately start a honey business. Not these folks though, they are worried about the ceiling cracking and the bee’s going into their home. Keeping it real, all the way real I would have got out of there and returned when the bee hives were gone. Click below to find out more.
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A couple in Canada had no idea that about 30,000 bees were swarming inside their home — until honey began to drip from a crack in their ceiling (pictured at left).
“We don’t hear them buzzing or anything,” Loretta Yates (pictured above with her husband, Kevin) told Canada’s QMI Agency. “It’s just the crack in the ceiling. Like, you’re standing in the kitchen, and you get honey dripped down your hair. It’s not pleasant.”
A beekeeper inspected Loretta and Kevin Yates’ home in Owen Sound, Ontario, two weeks ago and found the bees — along with a nest of yellow jacket wasps — between the ceiling of the first level and the floor of the second level. The beekeeper, David Schuit, originally estimated that 180,000 bees were in the house but revised that figure down to 30,000 because one swarm had taken off. He said that about 2,000 pounds of honey could also have been trapped up there.
Loretta Yates, who has a 22-month-old son with her husband, told the news service that she wasn’t sleeping well, worrying that the ceiling would collapse and the bees would swarm the rest of the house.
“Until we’d seen the massive honey dripping and stuff, I didn’t know what we were really dealing with was as big a problem as it’s turned out to be,” Loretta told QMI.
Even her neighbor, who runs a garage, complained that the bees have driven off customers.
This week, Schuit pulled down the ceiling in the kitchen to remove the bees and the honey. He said he removed the queen bees first, then the rest of the hives followed.
