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At Least You Didn't Wake Up To 120,000 Bees in Your Ceiling

I love bees but dang.

I love bees. They're important pollinators and hefty contributors to our ecosystems. But even I would have been squigged out if I discovered more than 100,000 bees chilling in my living room ceiling.

That's what happened to Georgia resident Lisa Ohrmundt, who recently had the massive bee colony removed from her home. She posted a Facebook video of the beekeeper cutting away the ceiling in her living room to reveal the staggeringly huge colony:

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There were more than 120,000 bees and 120 pounds of honeycomb in the massive bee "condo" inside her home. Ohrmundt told CBS that the beekeeper who removed the colony over a six-hour period said the bees had probably been there for about two years, but she never heard any buzzing from the ceiling, which is possibly the freakiest part. Could bees be living in your ceiling and you not even realize it?

Ohrmundt was clued in on the possibility of bees in her walls when she encountered some on the side of her house, but she wasn't prepared for that many freaking bees to emerge. As the owner of a landscape business, Ohrmundt isn't really skittish around bees, but this freaked even her out.

"I was never scared of them before, but when all those bees started flying, I was like, 'I'm out of here,'" she told CBS.

Can't say I blame her. Bees are great but, y'know, I'd prefer not to have droves of them as roommates.