Three-year-old’s ‘monster’ fear unveils 60,000 honeybees in bedroom

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Saylor Class’s parents assumed it was all in their young child’s vivid imagination when the three-year-old girl expressed concerns about monsters in her bedroom. However, what actually was bothering her was a swarm of bees, tens of thousands of honeybees.

After the discovery, the parents quickly change their minds. Saylor had been complaining about what she saw to be “monsters in the wall” in her room at their Charlotte, North Carolina, farmhouse.

At first, her mother Ashley Massis Class and her husband didn’t give it much thought because they had just seen the Pixar film Monsters, Inc. Home designer Massis Class told the BBC, “We even gave her a bottle of water and said it was monster spray so that she could spray away any of the monsters at night.”

However, the trick failed, and over the next several months, Saylor became increasingly convinced that there was something in her closet.

Her mother soon began to see the connections between the dots, and she saw bees congregating in her attic and outside their century-old home in bunches. She reasoned that Saylor had to hear the buzzing sound close to her bedroom ceiling.

After the woman contacted the pest control, they learned that the insects were honeybees, a species that is protected in the US. Subsequently, they were contacted by a beekeeper who saw the insects heading toward the attic floorboards, which are situated just above their daughter’s bedroom.

According to a media report, the bees took eight months to build their colony. The three-year-old’s bedroom walls were examined by the beekeeper using a thermal camera. “It lit up like Christmas,” Massis Class said.

Now called “monster hunter” by the relieved child, the beekeeper was shocked to learn of the find. More deeply than he had ever seen, the hive extended into the wall. He followed a path that ended in a tiny hole, the size of a quarter in an attic vent, and with great care, he opened the wall to uncover an enormous, vibrant honeycomb.100 lbs. or 45 kg of honeycomb and between 55,000 and 65,000 bees had been taken by the beekeeper, according to the BBC.