>>         Set up an empty hive body for a while and then when nothing bad
>> happens they'll feel better, move the bees in. If something bad happens,
>> show them that it's empty and that it's not your fault, nature happens.
 
A friend of mine expecting trouble place a 'decoy' hive on a spot where he
wanted to migrate bees for a Himalayan balsam crop.
 
Sure enough the expected trouble occured with a complaint to the police of
nuisance and family being stung & harassed.
 
The beekeeper dressed the policeman in veil gloves etc. guaranteed that he
wouldn't get stung and took him down to the hive whilst the neighbour
railed over the fence.
On lifting the lid of the empty hive, the neighbour disappeared and was
never heared to complain again.
 
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