My beekeeping mentor told me as a warning how his bees very much disliked his string trimmer being used around the hives. I tried using my string trimmer near my hives with no negative displays from the bees. Just speculating that it may be the sounds/vibrations from the drone to which they are sensitive. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html