Holy honey: 30,000 bees discovered in Corpus Christi Parish

For three years they remained mostly hidden — nestled with crisp honeycomb oozing with honey behind a false wall in the front of a Corpus Christi Parish. When the wall was cracked open last week it revealed that an estimated 30,000 bees, which is considered to be a medium-sized hive, were inside. Parishioners of the more than a century-old church would see the bees every so often, buzzing, as they headed into Corpus Christi on Waterford Bridge Road in St. John's. How an infestation led me to become so passionate about the beauty of bees But it wasn't until the wall was cracked open last week that it was revealed how many bees there were — an estimated 30,000, which is considered to be a medium-sized hive.

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