>if they are making honey and drawing comb and surviving who cares.
We all should!
Bees don't have to be aggressive to make honey or pollinate or whatever, 
but an aggressive hive can do more bad PR, than 100,000 non-aggressive 
ones will do good.  And now in this day & age of protecting us from 
ourselves, I won't risk knowingly having one around.  People now sue and 
WIN for getting themselves into trouble in places they had no right to 
be. One of my favorites: Rodeo contractor looses suit because he didn't 
post his land and chain the gates.  Some idiot decides to take pictures 
of bulls close up, only these aren't normal bulls. How was he to know? 
Judge agrees, HOW WAS HE TO KNOW? There are 100s of these cases with all 
kinds of things and more & more people blaming their lack of common 
sense on someone else.
At least a couple times a year I find someone observing my bees: 
landowner, renter, neighbour, someone whose grandmother used to keep 
them or he heard all about them on "Discovery Channel".  Imagine 
swearing under oath that you didn't know you had an aggressive hive in 
the group.  Then they dig up someone you had along one day or you told 
at a meeting how you got hammered working your hives that day or they 
question your family or staff. Banks aren't crazy about extending credit 
to individuals or companies with a pending law suit(s).  Even if I was 
to win, the time & trouble in court won't be worth it.  We won't put up 
with aggressive hives and highly recommend others think twice before 
they do.

Dave Tharle
Ardmore, AB
Canada

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