whirring/purring noise in my walls?!??

[Imzadi]

Just typing that just about makes me pass out............

Make some room, so I don't land on top of you!!!

 

[TaraPA]

OMG this happened to me last September. We always have a lot of bees, so I really didn't think much of seeing lots of them hovering around our upstairs window. DH kept spraying the area around the window, but it never seemed to lessen the bees. At night (early evening) I'd swear I could hear something in the ceiling above my master BR walk-in closet & the master bath, but just wasn't sure. Wellllllll......

About a week later I saw a small wet spot on the ceiling in my closet. STUPID ME got my vanity chair, stood on it & proceeded to push on the wet spot. Now this is where the horror movie scenario comes into play......as I just lightly touched the wet spot, the drywall gave way & a HUGE bees nest comes crashing down through it - and hundreds, if not thousands of angry bees come swarming out. I fell off the chair backwards, got out of the closet & slammed the door!!! They started trying to come out under the door so I stuffed towels there. You could hear the buzzing of all those bees, and their bodies hitting against the door. Thankfully I'm not afraid of bees, or allergic to them, but I was in a near panic. DH was out of town, it was 8pm, and I didn't know what to do. So I went to bed!!!

I got up around 7am & then realized - OMG I have to go to work & everything I own is in that closet - underwear, clothes, shoes, etc. I actually contemplated wearing something dirty out of the laundry pile!!!! But I needed shoes. So I got my sons up, they put on all their paintball gear, went in & got the 1st shirt, pants pair of shoes they could grab. I was praying that miraculously the bees would be gone. Hahahahahahahahahha. Not to be, they were even angrier & still buzzing & salmming their bodies against the closet door, and the window in the closet.

I called the exterminator & the soonest they could come was 4pm. When they did come, they said it was a hornet's nest, that this was actually pretty common. The nest was the size of a basketball - a little more egg-shaped. The wetness on the ceiling was from the hornets chewing the drywall - they chew drywall & wood & spit it out to make the nest. He sprayed a white powder over everything - and then pushed out the window to let any escape that could. He left me with the nest (they do not remove the nest, they just treat the problem), a bill for $300 and a walk-in closet filled with clothing covered in white pesticide. I think it was THEN that I sat down & cried!

My digital camera is not working right now or I'd post a pic of my closet ceiling. After taking days to wash every article of clothing, wiping down every item & nook of that closet, we just pushed the nest back up in the ceiling (he said a bee will never go back to a nest that has been destroyed), and used contractor's white tape to tape up the huge hole.

I think you better call the exterminator NOW!

 

[bgirldeb]

OMG this happened to me last September. We always have a lot of bees, so I really didn't think much of seeing lots of them hovering around our upstairs window. DH kept spraying the area around the window, but it never seemed to lessen the bees. At night (early evening) I'd swear I could hear something in the ceiling above my master BR walk-in closet & the master bath, but just wasn't sure. Wellllllll......

About a week later I saw a small wet spot on the ceiling in my closet. STUPID ME got my vanity chair, stood on it & proceeded to push on the wet spot. Now this is where the horror movie scenario comes into play......as I just lightly touched the wet spot, the drywall gave way & a HUGE bees nest comes crashing down through it - and hundreds, if not thousands of angry bees come swarming out. I fell off the chair backwards, got out of the closet & slammed the door!!! They started trying to come out under the door so I stuffed towels there. You could hear the buzzing of all those bees, and their bodies hitting against the door. Thankfully I'm not afraid of bees, or allergic to them, but I was in a near panic. DH was out of town, it was 8pm, and I didn't know what to do. So I went to bed!!!

I got up around 7am & then realized - OMG I have to go to work & everything I own is in that closet - underwear, clothes, shoes, etc. I actually contemplated wearing something dirty out of the laundry pile!!!! But I needed shoes. So I got my sons up, they put on all their paintball gear, went in & got the 1st shirt, pants pair of shoes they could grab. I was praying that miraculously the bees would be gone. Hahahahahahahahahha. Not to be, they were even angrier & still buzzing & salmming their bodies against the closet door, and the window in the closet.

I called the exterminator & the soonest they could come was 4pm. When they did come, they said it was a hornet's nest, that this was actually pretty common. The nest was the size of a basketball - a little more egg-shaped. The wetness on the ceiling was from the hornets chewing the drywall - they chew drywall & wood & spit it out to make the nest. He sprayed a white powder over everything - and then pushed out the window to let any escape that could. He left me with the nest (they do not remove the nest, they just treat the problem), a bill for $300 and a walk-in closet filled with clothing covered in white pesticide. I think it was THEN that I sat down & cried!

My digital camera is not working right now or I'd post a pic of my closet ceiling. After taking days to wash every article of clothing, wiping down every item & nook of that closet, we just pushed the nest back up in the ceiling (he said a bee will never go back to a nest that has been destroyed), and used contractor's white tape to tape up the huge hole.

I think you better call the exterminator NOW!

 

[bumbershoot]

Just typing that just about makes me pass out............

I know the feeling.

So I got my sons up, they put on all their paintball gear, went in & got the 1st shirt, pants pair of shoes they could grab.

Bet you never thought you'd be GLAD to have kids into paintball with all that expensive gear!

 

[wvjules]

Just reading this thread is making me naseaous! I have a HUGE wasp/bee phobia. I would have to move. I'm not sure I'd even go back to get my belongings!

 

[TaraPA]

Minnie Me - did you call an exterminator? I know it's a ton of money, but seriously, you can't let this go. If you do I'm afriad that it will bust through your walls at the most in-opportune time - and your whole house could become infested with swarming bees. Thankfully mine were mostly contained to the closet & master bath. We only found 3 that escaped into the house.

I'm not afraid of bees at all - BUT...I could show you snake pictures that would make your head spin. They're terrible this year, huge black ones - 5 feet long and as thick as my arm. I don't know why I took pics - I guess because I thought no one would believe me that they were that big. You want to see a grown woman reduced to a blabbering drooling screaming idiot - show me a snake. I absolutely freaked out, was crying & shaking & screaming several times this summer when we saw them on our mulch pile or in the garden. Dh was like "OMG chill out!" I just couldn't stop. I lost all control of myself! So to those of you with phobias about bees - I understand!!

 

[Minnie_me]

OMG this happened to me last September. We always have a lot of bees, so I really didn't think much of seeing lots of them hovering around our upstairs window. DH kept spraying the area around the window, but it never seemed to lessen the bees. At night (early evening) I'd swear I could hear something in the ceiling above my master BR walk-in closet & the master bath, but just wasn't sure. Wellllllll......

About a week later I saw a small wet spot on the ceiling in my closet. STUPID ME got my vanity chair, stood on it & proceeded to push on the wet spot. Now this is where the horror movie scenario comes into play......as I just lightly touched the wet spot, the drywall gave way & a HUGE bees nest comes crashing down through it - and hundreds, if not thousands of angry bees come swarming out. I fell off the chair backwards, got out of the closet & slammed the door!!! They started trying to come out under the door so I stuffed towels there. You could hear the buzzing of all those bees, and their bodies hitting against the door. Thankfully I'm not afraid of bees, or allergic to them, but I was in a near panic. DH was out of town, it was 8pm, and I didn't know what to do. So I went to bed!!!

I got up around 7am & then realized - OMG I have to go to work & everything I own is in that closet - underwear, clothes, shoes, etc. I actually contemplated wearing something dirty out of the laundry pile!!!! But I needed shoes. So I got my sons up, they put on all their paintball gear, went in & got the 1st shirt, pants pair of shoes they could grab. I was praying that miraculously the bees would be gone. Hahahahahahahahahha. Not to be, they were even angrier & still buzzing & salmming their bodies against the closet door, and the window in the closet.

I called the exterminator & the soonest they could come was 4pm. When they did come, they said it was a hornet's nest, that this was actually pretty common. The nest was the size of a basketball - a little more egg-shaped. The wetness on the ceiling was from the hornets chewing the drywall - they chew drywall & wood & spit it out to make the nest. He sprayed a white powder over everything - and then pushed out the window to let any escape that could. He left me with the nest (they do not remove the nest, they just treat the problem), a bill for $300 and a walk-in closet filled with clothing covered in white pesticide. I think it was THEN that I sat down & cried!

My digital camera is not working right now or I'd post a pic of my closet ceiling. After taking days to wash every article of clothing, wiping down every item & nook of that closet, we just pushed the nest back up in the ceiling (he said a bee will never go back to a nest that has been destroyed), and used contractor's white tape to tape up the huge hole.

I think you better call the exterminator NOW!

I pretty much had an anxiety attack after reading your post -- how the heck did you SLEEP with all of those bees in your closet?!?!

Anyway, I called the exterminator 1st thing this morning and left a message. I haven't heard back.

 

[Sandy22]

I pretty much had an anxiety attack after reading your post -- how the heck did you SLEEP with all of those bees in your closet?!?!

I can't believe you stayed in the house! I would have packed up the kids and slept at a friends, a hotel, the car, a tent....anywhere but next to a closet full of bees!

 

[TaraPA]

I don't know, I knew they weren't coming out of the closet so it didn't bother me. I could hear them though once I turned the TV off that night, through the closed bathroom door. I had put towels at the bottom of the bathroom door too in case they got out into that room. I was more worried about how to get my clothing out the next morning for work!!

Years ago I had a small snake in my LR - I swear the FOR SALE sign was almost up that same day. Had that snake not been caught, and I knew it was slithering around in my house, there's no way I would have slept there that night. I would have slept in the car before I slept in the house!

 

[Dancemom03]

Anyway, I called the exterminator 1st thing this morning and left a message. I haven't heard back.

I appluad your self control... I'd have called ten exterminators, maybe more... hourly... First one on the scene with positive results wins!

 

[yoopermom]

If we weren't VERY close to the couple in this story, I'd think it was an urban legend, but it's all true, I promise...

Our friends remodelled their old farmhouse (including extending the kitchen into what had formerly been an unheated screen porch) and sold it for a tidy profit come winter. The next spring, the new owner's daughter said, "mommy, I think there's snakes in my bed". Turned out there had been an old dried up well under the former porch/now kitchen, and it was the hatching(birthing?) place for lots and lots of snakes that in years past would have just slithered away, but now found themselves inside the house...lots of snakes...

Yes the new owners sued our friends for nondisclosure and essentially made them buy it back. It's still for sale...

Terri

 

[wvjules]

Did the exterminator come? Did you hear the noises last night? Did you move out?

 

[TaraPA]

OMG no word from the OP - the bees got her!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously though, what happened?

 

[Tantor]

subscribing......

 

[cepmom]

If we weren't VERY close to the couple in this story, I'd think it was an urban legend, but it's all true, I promise...

Our friends remodelled their old farmhouse (including extending the kitchen into what had formerly been an unheated screen porch) and sold it for a tidy profit come winter. The next spring, the new owner's daughter said, "mommy, I think there's snakes in my bed". Turned out there had been an old dried up well under the former porch/now kitchen, and it was the hatching(birthing?) place for lots and lots of snakes that in years past would have just slithered away, but now found themselves inside the house...lots of snakes...

Yes the new owners sued our friends for nondisclosure and essentially made them buy it back. It's still for sale...

Terri

I would DIE! I have a huge fear of snakes!!!! Snakes in the bed???

 

[Imzadi]

OMG no word from the OP - the bees got her!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously though, what happened?

OMG! Bee Watch 2009

 

[krcit]

Did the exterminator come? Did you hear the noises last night? Did you move out?

 

[MineMail]

On a non-insect related note-could it be a heat/ac duct and you are hearing the fan from the furnace???

One of my kids refused to use a bathroom in a house we were renting. I asked her why and she said it was because there were "bees in the wall." She could hear the buzzing.

I finally figured out that it only happened when the heat/a/c was running.
It was the fan. HOpe that's what it is for you too - a wallfull of bees is a horrible thought.

 

[MineMail]

I was more worried about how to get my clothing out the next morning for work!!

I wouldn't have opened the door for anything. I'd rather wear dirty clothes than face angry hornets.

We once had squirrels in the attic and I could hear them scratching all night long. I couldn't sleep for worrying about their breaking through the lathe and plaster ceilings. (I KNOW that couldnt' happen, but your imagination runs wild when you're scared.)

Now I remember why I dont' watch horror movies. *shudders*

 

[Tantor]

If we weren't VERY close to the couple in this story, I'd think it was an urban legend, but it's all true, I promise...

Our friends remodelled their old farmhouse (including extending the kitchen into what had formerly been an unheated screen porch) and sold it for a tidy profit come winter. The next spring, the new owner's daughter said, "mommy, I think there's snakes in my bed". Turned out there had been an old dried up well under the former porch/now kitchen, and it was the hatching(birthing?) place for lots and lots of snakes that in years past would have just slithered away, but now found themselves inside the house...lots of snakes...

Yes the new owners sued our friends for nondisclosure and essentially made them buy it back. It's still for sale...

Terri