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One woman's winged fuzzy nightmare is at an end as 50,000 bees were removed from her home in Cambridge, Ont., although it took a couple of tries over the course of three years.

50,000 bees removed from home in Cambridge, Ont.


Daniel Martins
Digital Reporter

Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 9:58 AM - It started with honey and a distant buzzing. 

Now, finally, one woman's winged fuzzy nightmare is at an end as 50,000 bees were removed from her home in Cambridge, Ont., although it took a couple of tries over the course of three years.

"It broke my heart to call an exterminator … because I knew we were losing bees," homeowner Louise Dawe told CTV Kitchener this week of the first time she tried to get rid of the enormous colony.

Fumigation only seemed to work temporarily, as the bees were soon back, but option two is a happier one for everyone involved: Dawe found a beekeeper, David Schuit, who was happy to remove the bees from the home altogether after pacifying them first.

Schuit says it's safer than simply killing them, as even a dead colony will leave behind honeycombs that are a potential fire hazard.

"Wax moths will come in and eat the wax, and the honey will begin to flow and it could … end up in your electrical box. Then you've got a fire," Schuit told CTV.

Sadly, there was no hope for the honey (which had been contaminated from the fumigation process), but at least Dawe doesn't have to share her home with tens of thousands of stinging insects.

SOURCE: CTV News

BONUS VIDEO: 300,000 bees attack and kill man in attic.

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