Swarm of Bees, Up to 60,000 of Them, Found in Walls of Utah Home

There have been rumors for some years of the earth's bee population beginning to decrease in alarming numbers, which would have a negative effect on the world's eco-system since bees do lots of good pollinating.

But, if one looks at recent findings in Utah, one might beg to differ with the struggle of bees to survive.

A man in Provo, Utah went outside to see what a buzz was about -- and when he found no hives outside, he had to look inside his home, according to KUTV.

"We were just sitting on our couch, turned off the TV and could hear some buzzing in the walls," Tyler Judd, the homeowner, told NBC 2.

With the help of a bee removal specialist, he found that the colony he was hearing lived inside his house, honeycombed into a bedroom wall. And inside the wall were between 40,000 and 60,000 bees, according to NBC's report.

According to bee specialist Albert Chubak, an exterminator had tried to rid the house of the insects about five years prior, but the bees later reclaimed the wall.

Chubak said that the home was sending swarms to colonize the area and removing insulation from the inside of the house -- and it was time to get rid of them.

In another section of Utah, Ogden specifically, a man hired to remove bees from a cabin said he was shocked to discover their hive in the structure's rafters measured 12 feet long.

Vic Bachman, owner of Deseret Hive Supply in Ogden, said the owners of the Eden cabin had known about the bees since 1996, but decided to leave them alone because they weren't bothering anybody, according to the Ogden Standard-Examiner.

Bachman told the Standard-Examiner the family finally decided to get rid of the bees in March because there is now a baby around. Bachman said he waited until April for the removal due to the cold weather in March and was shocked when he entered the cabin and discovered the 12-foot hive, which he said is about four times the usual size.

"I haven't seen one that huge," Bachman said. "It's been there since 1996, so we expected it to be large, but we didn't know how large. When we saw how big it was, we were like, 'Oh, man.'"

Bachman said he used a vacuum to safely remove the bees and they are now doing well in his company's hives.