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(WFLA)  More than 80,000 honeybees have been evicted from a gated community in Lakeland, Florida.

It caused a bit of a commotion in the quiet neighborhood.

"We found out about it last week, and we came down to look at it. We told everybody that came through to be careful because we were told they were hornets," neighbor Ilene Phelin said.

They were, in fact, honeybees. Experts think there were more than 80,000 of them.

"It was more than what we thought," beekeeper Robert Jones said. "All of them were home this morning because it was cold, all of them together. There was almost an inch and a half of bees on that comb."

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