Couple discover huge beehive hidden inside their home after honey starts dripping down walls
14.03.2023 - 19:47
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A couple has discovered a giant beehive inside their home after spotting honey dripping down their bedroom wall. Kate Dempsey, 41, and her husband Andrew Dempsey, 42, noticed dark patches on their floorboards which they initially dismissed as damp.
But then after smelling a "sweet, sickly stench", Kate couldn't ignore it and decided to rip up her floorboards. She then discovered several six-foot long pieces of honeycomb and litres of honey making up a giant beehive under their home.
The couple said the 'insane' discovery at their home in Folkestone, Kent took four weeks to completely remove, which they did themselves with the help of some friends.
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Kate, a diversity and inclusion advisor, said: “It all started in the really hot summer last year. We noticed black sticky stuff coming down our bedroom wall.
“It got to the point where we couldn’t ignore it anymore. I smelt it and tasted it and it was honey. I didn’t have any idea what was going on.
“We’d never seen anything like it. The sheer volume of the hive was huge. We kept cutting these floorboards away and more and more honeycomb kept appearing.
“The smell hit you immediately. It was this sweet stench and we had this really sickly smell for ages - [I just felt] disbelief really.”
The couple also encountered some bees once they'd pulled up the floorboards.
Kate said: "We’d spotted bees when we first moved in but they disappeared, and we’d had the house repainted.
“I went to our daughter’s room which is above ours and pulled back the carpet. These massive maggots started crawling out of the floorboards.
“We decided we were going to pull up the