Family Home Infested With 20,000 Bees

[matcom]

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TULSA, Okla. -- An Oklahoma family has found a surprise under the floorboards of its historic Tulsa home: 20,000 bees.

Beekeepers found several hives under the floor of the second story of the house. The bee combs under were about six inches thick and extended several feet.

A modified vacuum cleaner will be used to suck the bees out through a tube and deposit them in a sealed container. The bees will be taken to an apiary, where their honey will be harvested.

Because the 1930s home is in a historic district, the removal project has been delayed while the family finds a contractor who can tear out the flooring without violating preservation guidelines.

They haven't received an estimate of how much it will cost.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4551163/detail.html

[Brianboru]

1. Didn't the buzzing keep them up at night?

[Orsino]

13. They'd just count bees to fall asleep.

That 20,000 figure must have come from somewhere.

[CatWoman]

2. weird -- Saturday, while putting down grass seed

I saw a bee fly into a small hole on the side of the house.

I'm gonna have to investigate that........

[KG]

7. take some caulk and seal up

that whole. and any other similar hole.

[CatWoman]

9. thanks for the tip

:hi:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Some bees (not honey bees) are solitary bees

They live in little holes in trees, fences, your house just about anything they can find. I had one move into the tip of my cordless drill in the garage. We were both surprised when I hit the trigger.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. LMAO

That's a scream!

[Jersey Devil]

11. Carpenter bees

They drill a perfectly round hole every time. Plug the holes because they always come back to the same spot

[MissB]

3. Is this where William Pitt has been living?

I cannot imagine the cost. It must be horrendous.

I freak everytime I find one little itty bitty wasp nest inside the walls. We tear out about two rooms a year and insulate and seal things back up.

20,000 bees? Good fuck.

[ReadTomPaine]

4. Well, we were warned about this in the 70's...

[CottonBear]

5. Once, I turned on an attic fan and bees started flying into the house...

I stepped on some in my bare feet and was stung. Ouch. I turned of the fan and ran downstairs and outside and there I saw, to my horror, a HUGE swarm of bees up on the second story of the house! This was in the spring.

Yikes! :scared:

I called the owner and she sent a beekeeper over to lure the queen and her minions into beehives. They were in the ceiling of a renovated 1840 log cabin (think 20-30 foot long 12"x12" square hewn logs) between the ceiling and the standing seam steel roof.

The bees eventually left and took the honey with them to their new home. If they had been exterminated, the honey comb would have melted and dripped honey everywhere. Apparently, the fanning of all those little wings keeps the wax from melting.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. Okay, I know little about bees, honey, and apiaries, but

"The bees will be taken to an apiary, where their honey will be harvested."

Isn't the honey in the hive, and not in the bee? What are they going to do w/ the combs under the house?

:shrug:

And another thing: who counted the bees? :7

[izzie]

8. Well they should be able to sell them as their are many places

that really need bees this year. Something is killing them off. Frankly I would hire someone to come in a pick them up.

[ComerPerro]

12. Its like a bad TV movie-of-the-week

[Zuni]

14. hmmmm....

I wonder how long they lived there before they noticed they were roomates with 20,000 Bees

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. I guess they were trying to get

a good buzz. :smoke: