Oh, Honey! Couple Finds 60,000 Bees in Wall of Home

Mark and Amy Jones discovered their home in Concord, N.C., had 60,000 clandestine tenants living rent-free — but instead of taking the squatters to court, they found them new accommodations.

Acting on a report from their tenant that the 100-year-old home had honey oozing from a wall in a vacant upstairs bedroom, the couple did a little detective work and discovered a massive honeybee haven two feet wide and six feet long, nestled into the wall.

“The honey was seeping out of the wall,” Mark Jones told Matt Lauer on the Today Show. “I actually tasted it. I heard the buzzing in the wall — it was obvious that it looked like honey, smelled like honey, tasted like honey.”

Read the full MSNBC story here.