Tens Of Thousands Of Bees That Live In Agricultural Houses In Maine During Decades Are Finally Moved

JAKARTA - Tens of thousands of bees removed from Maine's agricultural home, the United States this week have caused a stir there for decades, according to families who have lived in the farm since the 18th century.

An estimated 40,000 bees have been removed from the walls of an agricultural house in Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, Maine, according to CNN affiliate WMTW. The Knight family has been managing the farm since 1720, according to the agricultural website.

"Marsha Knight claims the honey bees or other honey bees have been in the cavity of the wall since she was a child," said Andrew MacDonald, owner of Bee Hugah, the company that removed the bees from the farm, in a video posted on Facebook.

"For more than 60 years, there have been bees in this house and maybe longer than that. Maybe 70 or 80," said Marsha's brother, Michael Knight, according to WMTW.

MacDonald' video clip on September 13 showed a large group of busy bees moving inside a yellow wall open in a farm home before they were removed last week. From another point of view, the bees were seen walking in and out of agricultural homes from outside, the clip shows.

Instead of killing the bees, the Knight family wants to save the colony that lives in the farm house, which needs to be renovated, so they ask for MacDonald's services, WMTW reports.

"I believe these bees deserve to be saved for a number of different reasons," MacDonald told WMTW.

"They have medicinal properties and they pollinate our plants," he continued.

MacDonald moved the bees to a honeycomb box outside the farm, where they adapted to their new home, he shared it in a Facebook clip on Friday.

Knight's family said they plan to raise the nest outdoors and the bees will later be moved to another place on the farm, according to WMTW.

It is known, Maine is home to more than 270 bee species, according to the University of Maine.