North Carolina child’s ‘monster in the closet’ was in fact 50,000 bees in the wall

For eight months, a swarm of honeybees had been building a hive inside the wall of the child’s room. Photograph: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket/Getty Images

A toddler told her mom that “monsters” were in her closet. But in fact, there were more than 50,000 bees there.

A mother of three children under four years old was met with a “terrifying” surprise after she and her husband investigated why a handful of bees had flown into the attic of the couple’s North Carolina home.