Jason Housman
Active Member
While at work today I got a frantic phone call from my wife. She's crying on the phone saying there are bees all over the house. So I tell her to close all the windows and stay inside and they'll go away. Turns out they are not outside, they're in the house. My cats are chasing them and trying to eat them while she herds them into the basement. She got all the cats in the basement and notices there are even more bees in the basement! I leave work while she tries to call an exterminator. When I pull up to my house I look over and all I see are bees on the picture window in front. All I hear is buzzing when I open the door and they are everywhere!! My wife finally got a hold of an exterminator and said he would come over in about an hour. Because it's memorial day weekend she had to call 18 exterminators to get one to come out. All the others said thay would come on Tuesday. When he got there he walked around and looked at everything. He said we had "zillions" of bees but he could take care of it. They turned out to be honeybees and there were also some carpenter bees eating up my back porch which he took care of too. Oddly enough there was no hive in the house.(He looked for a few hours) We literally got swarmed. He said what likely happened was the queen bee was looking for a place to make a home and came across our house. Why? It's just random. She found a crack in our foundation between the basement window and brick and the rest of the bees followed her in. It was something out of a movie. All the buzzing was scary. Thank god he came out as I don't think my wife and I could have waited until Tuesday for someone to get rid of the bees. Turns out the guy who came was at an engagement party for his son and the only reason he came was because my wife was crying and in such a panic. We plan on writing a letter to the company he works for to thank him and let him know how much it meant to us for him to come out when we really needed it even though he was obviously busy. Just wanted to say that there are some people out there who actually do care and want to help others. Thanks.