In a message dated 12/05/97  21:50:24, you write:
 
<< One of my hives has turned nasty. There will always be a couple of
suicidal
 meniac
 bees that will follow you around tryng to sting you. No good for
 grandchildren playing
 in the garden or wife weeding.
 Wife has issued ultimatum: "Do something!"
 The honey flow is on, what can I do at this point?
  >>
The Aebi's wrote an excellent book - I don't have the title to hand, and a
snippet of advice from it that I have passed on many times for this kind of
situation, is to hang up on a line near the hives, or near where the people
are normally in the garden, some old clothes belonging to the people of the
house. The bees get used to the site of clothes flapping in the wind, and
also the odour. So that when you walk down the garden, they pay much less
attention.
Good luck.
Matthew J Allan