A Carseldine couple has been left stunned after a two-metre-long beehive was cut out of their ceiling, months after a similar hive was removed from a property in Bracken Ridge.

The hive, which was nestled between joists 30 centimetres deep, housed between 60,000 and 70,000 bees.

The owners of the home said they had seen the bees outside their house and could even hear them inside.

"We could see them on the outside where they entered, and we've been stung a few times as we go down the side," one of the homeowners said.

"And you can just hear them … a humming and a little bit of a scratching noise."

The hive stretched two metres inside the ceiling. ( ABC News: Dan Smith )

Paul Wood from Brisbane Backyard Bees said it was not an unusual situation, and estimated between 10 and 15 kilograms of honey could be in the couple's ceiling.

"The first thing is, August, September and October being springtime, the bees swarm. They'll park in a tree for two to three days, looking for a new home. Unfortunately, we don't leave enough trees standing, so they choose the cavities of houses," he said.

In such situations, Mr Wood cuts into the roof and vacuums up the bees into a specially designed box, where he can safely transport them to be placed into a hive. He collects the honeycomb, and usually gives away at least half the honey once it is filtered.

There were between 60,000 and 70,000 bees in the hive. ( ABC News: Dan Smith )

He urged people to avoid calling pest control if they thought they had bees in their ceiling or walls, because their ceiling often would have to be removed anyway.

"The best thing to do would be for people to look out for bees when they swarm — then we can intervene and get the swarm, the whole colony, into a hive," he said.

"If they're in the wall, or the ceiling, your options are you call a beekeeper to get it out … and pest control is another one, but if there's any amount of honey in there, it's going to destroy your ceiling anyway.

"Bees tend not to spill honey at all, but if you kill this whole thing, all of that infrastructure … just sits in the ceiling and falls through."

The bees are vacuumed into a purpose-built box for transport. ( ABC News: Dan Smith )

The homeowners said they called Mr Wood because they did not want to destroy the bees in the process.

"The environment is in such a mess anyway, and in this area lots of trees are coming down, we're getting more and more possums through the yard, and so we didn't want to destroy the bees as well. It's very important," one homeowner said.

Mr Wood last made headlines when he removed a similar hive from a Bracken Ridge property, and took a video.

That hive had a similar number of bees, but had 50kg of honey.