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135,000 Africanized Bees Removed From Texas Home

POSTED: Thursday, May 3, 2007
UPDATED: 3:35 pm EDT May 3, 2007

Beekeepers removed amore than 135,000 Africanized bees from inside the walls of a town home in Houston, Texas.


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The bees were living in the inner walls of the building of the north Houston building.

Officials said the size of the hive and numbers of bees inside of the walls led experts to believe the bees may have been building honeycomb for nearly a decade.

It took beekeepers several hours to remove the bees from behind the wood panels.

The work was done by hand without the use of insecticides.

"You can't be trying to put anything inside there like any chemical base and stuff like that because that's where everybody sleeps," Gotcha Pest Control's Claude Griffin said.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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