The couple found that their house had turned into a giant beehive (11 photos + 1 video)

Initially, Kate and Andrew Dempsey accepted the dark spots in their house in Folkestone, England, for being damp. But a strange sweet smell in the house made Mrs. Dempsey doubt this version. She decided to raise floorboards and found a two-meter piece of honeycomb with liters of honey.





According to Mrs. Dempsey, it took her and her husband several weeks to get rid of the combs and replace the floor.

“We have never seen anything like it,” she recalls. — The volume of the hive was enormous. We kept cutting those floorboards, and into the light more and more hundreds appeared. The smell immediately knocked us off our feet. It was such a sweetish stench, and this nauseating smell lingered eternity".



Attempts to find specialists to remove the honeycomb failed success - according to the spouses, huge sums were asked for work, up to 10 000 pounds sterling. So Dempsey friends decided to challenge the hive and solve the problem on their own. They put on rubber gloves to scoop up the sticky honey, and took to work on a hot summer day.





“It all started on a very hot summer last year,” says Mrs Dempsey. - We noticed a black sticky substance, running down our bedroom wall. Then we could no longer ignore the problem. I sniffed it and tasted it, and it turned out that it was honey. I had no idea what was going on. We spotted bees when we first moved in, but they soon disappeared, and after that we repainted the house. I went to our daughter's room, which is above ours, and pushed back the carpet. And then huge larvae. We decided to lift the floorboards and see what was going on. We found an old hive, and it almost completely rotted out of it many moths. We continued to remove the floorboards and found more and more more than a hundred, it just seemed like there was no end to the hive, it was completely disgusting. We pulled out a giant two-meter honeycomb.”







The situation was greatly aggravated by swarms of "robber bees", which flying around and constantly trying to steal the honey while the Dempsies were working.

“We woke up one morning somewhere in the middle of cleaning and saw that the room was full of bees,” recalls Mrs. Dempsey. - We called for help from local beekeepers, and one of them came to see - he said they were robber bees, and they flew into the hive to steal honey.

Robber bees are called honey bees that invade other people's hives and steal honey.









“We kept finding more and more [honeycombs], above the window our bedroom has a piece of roof, and it was also full of golden honey, - Dempsey complains. You can imagine the mess. It was terrible. I was very worried about the extent of the damage. I have no idea [how long the hive was there], but apparently a very long time. In total, we it took about four weeks to remove all the honey, but we They tried their best not to disturb the bees and not to kill them.