In a message dated 95-11-28 15:03:23 EST, you write: > I've queried my existing neighbors as to their feelings on having hive's > next door (to get a feel for my soon-to-be neighbors responses) > > Their response: Overwhelmingly negative ! :-( > One person actually compared keeping bees to keeping poisonous snakes !! I think before you decide to please your soon to be new neighbors you better find out what the local zoning laws are. I kept bees in a garage where they could fly in and out of a window, but the city I lived in had an ordinance against bees. The neighbors who knew I had bees (most didn't even know I had them) didn't mind so nobody turned me in.