A woman who saw honey dripping down her bedroom walls was stunned to discover 35,000 bees living in her ceiling.

Cherisse Mulzac first noticed bees in her apartment last year but thought little of it.

But when she saw a strange, sticky substance dripping down her walls - and realised it was beads of honey - she called in a beekeeper.

Astonishing footage shows pest controller Mickey Hegedus, 52, cutting a 4ft-hole in Cherisse's ceiling - to find approximately 35,000 honeybees.

He estimates that he also found 60 to 70lbs of honey - most of which Cherisse scooped into jars to keep - the the New York apartment.

Mickey sucked the bees - which he believes had been there for around two years - into a box using a special low-pressure vacuum.

Third-generation beekeeper Mickey, known as Mickey the Beekeeper, said: 'It was a big shock.

'I think the bees would have been there for two years or so without her realizing and by the time I went there last week there must have been 35,000 there.

'I haven't seen anything this big in a long time and I have never pulled them out with that much honey.

Cherisse Mulzac started noticing bees in her apartment a year ago but thought little of it. But when she saw a strange, sticky substance dripping down her walls - and realised it was beads of honey - that she called in beekeeper Mickey Hegedus (pictured left)

'I had to be very careful that it didn't just all come crashing out. It was a slow process - it took about six hours.

'Cherisse kept most of it. I took a lot out and I kept around 20lbs for the bees because they needed some of it back.'

Mickey Hegedus estimates that he also found 60 to 70lbs of bees. He transported them back to his home in Brooklyn, New York where he keeps them in hives in his back garden

Cherisse told a local news channel: 'The bees started coming. I came home from work and there were like six or seven dead bees on the floor.'

She added: 'You can still hear them buzzing, and there's honey on the wall.'

Mickey transported the bees back to his home in Brooklyn, New York where he keeps them in hives in his back garden.

Their new home had to be more than two miles away from Cherisse's East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY, apartment to ensure they would not return.