Despite the known /believed? reduction in feral colonies post varooa, an
interesting experiment would be for the sole beekeeper in the city to note
down the number of bees to visit various patches of flowers within the city,
perhaps near to the complainant's home.  Then to shut in all his bee for a
day and recheck the number of foragers at work.  It might show that banning
his beekeeping would NOT totally eliminate risk to those who are allergic -
so undermining the core case for the ban.

It would at least enable some estimate of the number of foragers likely to
enter the complainant's property on any day -  (I will risk betting it would
be a very small number if there are so few colonies in the entire area).
Councillors might be persauded the complainant would be better off solving
their own personal problem by reducing attractive nectar sources close to
home than asking for a city-wide reduction in pollination of home-produced
fruit and veg.

Robin Dartington

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