We are going to try some kind of bee that is indigenous, can't remember the name, something like carpenter bees, they make holes in wood. A friend of mine who keeps honeybees said he would loan me a hive, but the guy next door has a swimming pool, and my friend said something about bees and swimming pools, that I also don't remember, but I think it's that the bees bother people around swimming pools. Probably try to get in their drinks. But why swimming pools and not barbecues? This guy is a little weird, so I don't know if he's just being weird or there's a reason. But the guy catty-corner to us has backyard barbecues all the time, and little kids, so if liability is a problem, it seems that would be just as great a liability. Anyway, I asked the county about regulations on keeping bees, and they said it wasn't illegal as long as they didn't present a hazard.
Oh, and while I am rambling on I just remembered seeing beehives behind a house in the next block, and that I meant to knock on their door and ask if they had bees, because that would solve the problem. |
