In a video shared online seen more than 3 million times, professional beekeeper Elisha Bixler documented the incredible find on her social channels with an estimated hundred pounds of honey sitting compact and tight behind the shower wall.

“I got a surprise when I started breaking away the tiles behind the shower wall. Look at how much honey is packed away in here. This is a seven-foot long beehive,” Ms Bixler can be heard saying in the video.

The homeowners were aware that there could be some bees behind the wall due to infrequent stings and frequent buzzing in the house before the renovation but say they were not anticipating the sheer amount of them.

“We both really love nature and we love bees,” one of the homeowners, Stephanie Graham was quoted as saying by The New York Times. “We’re like, ‘We’ll leave you alone. You leave us alone.’ They were nice bees. So we were like, ‘Sure, go ahead, live in our shower’.”

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“The homeowners were getting tired of listening to the buzzing and random bees escaping the wall whenever they would use the bathroom,” Ms Bixler said in the video.

“This thing is incredible. I am gonna take them home to one of my apiaries,” the beekeeper added.

The process of moving away the bees from the shower wall and rehabilitating them was described by Ms Bixler in the New York Times.

Ms Bixler said she carried a heat thermal gun that pointed her to the shower corner but it was only after she chipped away at the tiles that she realised how massive the colony of bees actually was.

The temperature recorded by the thermal gun was around 96 degrees, which she said was typical for a beehive.

She initially wore just a veil to protect herself from the bees, but after several bees stung her she was forced to wear extra protective gear comprising gloves and boots.

Her next task was to find the queen bee who would have led the entire colony out from behind the shower wall. Ms Bixler soon found the queen bee, as her abdomen was twice the size of regular bees, she noted.

She took the queen bee and placed her in a protective cage along with the other bees.

“That makes all the bees go into the box with her. She wants to be back in her wall. She thinks that’s her home,” she told the NYT.

(H/T Daily Atomic)