They found 80,000 bees living in the bathroom of their home
A true nightmare story lived by a Florida couple, 100% real. It was also written by the New York Times, not the "Snorkel News".
It seems unbelievable but the wall of the bathroom of a couple from Florida, hid behind it almost 80,000 bees and 100 kilos of honey, with them for so many years suspecting that something is wrong with their shower, but in no case have they understood absurd of the thing.
They only found out recently when they decided to renovate their bathroom, according to the New York Times.
Stephanie and Dan Graham said that many years ago, they had removed a hive behind their shower and that after the discovery they continued to see some bees wandering around in their house.
"We both really love nature and we also love bees," she told the Times. That's why we had the logic that 'if you leave us alone, then we will leave you alone too'. They were 'good' bees and so we said, 'okay, do what you want, live in our shower'.
So, when the couple decided to renovate their bathroom, they called a professional beekeeper, Eliza Bixler, who runs the company "How's Your Day, Honey" and undertakes such work.
The Grahams, then, were shocked to find that the situation had slipped out of their hands, and that the insects they once saw in their homes were not a dozen or so, but belonged to a hive with 80,000 more bees.
The beekeeper who arrived at their home to look after the situation told the Times that she used a "heat detection pistol" to locate the hive, which "pistol" showed that "the temperature was around 35 ° C", which is absolutely normal for a hive.
Breaking down the walls in the bathroom, Bixler discovered how serious the Graham issue with the bees was. "Once I found where they were, I started breaking the tiles and bringing to light this huge hive that was two meters high," he said. "And it was full of honey."
Bixler did not kill the bees, picked them up carefully, a process that took her almost five hours, and cost the couple around 1,000 euros. He even managed to find the "queen" and place her in a special box, a fact that made the others follow her and enter, as they naturally want to be with her.
The Times noted that the beekeeper used a "special broom" to pick up the remaining scattered bees in order to take them back to her farm. He then intends to move the bees to different apiaries in the area, where the insects will not be bothered again by renovations and will live a beautiful and quiet life - whatever that means for an insect.
