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Would you buy a house next to someone who keeps bees?
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Anonymous
| OP here. Wow, ok! Thanks for all the enthusiastic responses, I had no idea it would be considered advantageous to live next door to a beekeeper! None of us are allergic (that we know of). I was more concerned with being able to play freely in the backyard without having to swat bees away continuously. Thanks for all the positive feedback, appreciate it! |
Anonymous
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just stand in the yard and check it you LOL
now, seriously... we kept bees growing up and we NEVER had a problem. we had honey for the entire neighborhood and everybody was friendly towards us so I guess nobody around us ever had a problem with our bees. |
Anonymous
| There was a similar situation on an episode of house hunters that I watched. The house they really liked/ended up choosing was next-door to someone who kept bees. They were very concerned about it. At the end of the show when they go back a few months later the family said the bees were no problem they didn't even notice they were there. |
Anonymous
Swarming and forming another colony somewhere else is not rare but doesn't usually happen in a managed colony. Whatever the reason and wherever they are, the keeper can re-hive them pretty easily. |
Anonymous
| When I was a kid, my grandmother kept bees, and I played in her yard all the time. I never even noticed them unless I was standing right next to the hive. |
Anonymous
Sorry for the typo--just realized I wrote aviary--meant apiary. |
Anonymous
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Our neighbor kept bees for a season, until they died. The apiary was maybe 50 feet from our house.
We never got stung. We didn't ever see swarms of bees, either. The only possible downside I read about was the bees attacking the hummingbirds at my hummingbird feeder. So I didn't put up the hummingbird feeder for the year our neighbors had the bees. |
Anonymous
| Apiaries are very safe. I would totally do it and I would plant fruit trees and a gorgeous garden. |
Anonymous
| Another vote Yes! I wouldn't have a problem with it. |
Anonymous
| GOD NO! Are you seriously considering this? None of your children's friends will likely be allowed to go to your house. |
Anonymous
| NEVER. I am allergic, don't know if my kids are. I am also scared of bees and would not be able to leave my house without being nervous. |
Anonymous
I'm surprised it took this long for the ignorant to show up. Just how would the kids' friends know the neighbor had bees? I grew up on a farm and a beekeeper kept hives in our orchard which was next to the house. No one was ever stung - even when they were baling hay. I did the trimming in that orchard for 20+ years using a gasoline push mower. I used a string trimmer on the hives - whacking the shit out of them. Never had a problem and got lots of great honey from the beekeeper. We used to call him when the bees looked like they were about to swarm so he could get another hive ready. It was an amazing sight and sound. I'd love to have bees but I'm sure our neighbors use too many pesticides. Of course, people here freak out when they see a black snake or fox. I'm not surprised they feel the same way about bees. |
Anonymous
Less likely. They won't establish another colony that close to a pre-existing one. |
Anonymous
| I also would love it. Honeybees are not aggressive, and the only real danger of stings is stepping on them. If you are allergic, I would be more vigilant about keeping clover out of your yard (the easiest way to step on them) and would keep flowering plants that they'd be attracted to at the back of borders. Honeybees are not wasps: they die when they sting, and therefore typically only sting when the hive is under attack. Wasps are predators and "sting for a living." |
Anonymous
Of course, not going barefoot works, too! |