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