New Brookline homeowners abuzz over find

Previous owner leaves them with a gift of honey:

What gets me is that there were several tens of thousands of bees that called my new address "home" up until last Saturday. The hive was in the stairwell between the second and third floor, basically, next to and slightly above the previous owner's bedroom. Given that you don't get a fine piece of modular hexagonal construction like you see there in ten minutes, don't you think he might have noticed just a bit of noise (not to mention a ton of six legged friends flying past his windows) at, say the four a.m. summer wake up call? Just asking ...

With photos.

Via Wicked Local Brookline.