Beekeepers remove gigantic beehive from warehouse wall

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Richard Clapper lifts bees out of their new home in a manmade beehive after being removed from a giant beehive found in the wall of an upper floor at Pittsfield Furniture. According to Clapper, the hive is by far the largest wild beehive he has ever seen.

Beekeepers remove gigantic beehive from warehouse wall
UPDATED 3:50 PM EDT Oct 02, 2015

PITTSFIELD, Mass. —Two beekeepers have extracted roughly 100,000 bees from a giant hive in a wall on the third floor of a Massachusetts furniture store's warehouse.

The Berkshire Eagle reports the pair has worked this week to remove the nest that filled a bay window at Pittsfield Furniture's warehouse. The hive was likely several years old.

Richard Clapper and Ed Neumuth worked in stages, vacuuming up bees by the tens of thousands and discharging the creatures into beekeeping boxes. The pair planned to finish the job Friday.

The beekeepers found more than 100 pounds of honey in the hive. It was so much that Clapper was giving away honey fresh from the hive in jars to store employees.