Has anybody ran into any serious issues with their bees that has provoked neighbors to an excessive act of revenge? Such as to the point where the police may have been called, to address the issue from the neighbor's viewpoint of the bees' nuisance to their lives, or even to the acute instance where a neighbor might contact their local municipality complaining of the potential hazard of a beekeeper's bees in an attempt to force a beekeeper to move their hive(s)?
Elsewhere I mention on this site of a apiary I took over that had killed a tied up horse, approx 30 feet away on a neighbor's property, and the previous beekeeper didn't want to put up with any potential problems so he sold to me. I never had one complaint from the neighbor the years I had that yard in the 60s and 70s. I had a couple hives on my parents .8 acre of land for 10 years at that same time and never had a complaint there either. Had a number of other yards, but never a neighbor complaint to my knowledge.
But just doing some spit-balling as everyone's neighbor experience may not be as positive, due to the honeybees, and there are some people that are just downright cantankerous no matter what the situation.
I was just wondering if any board member(s) happened to run into any major issues from their neighbors due to the proximity of their backyard beehive(s)?
Elsewhere I mention on this site of a apiary I took over that had killed a tied up horse, approx 30 feet away on a neighbor's property, and the previous beekeeper didn't want to put up with any potential problems so he sold to me. I never had one complaint from the neighbor the years I had that yard in the 60s and 70s. I had a couple hives on my parents .8 acre of land for 10 years at that same time and never had a complaint there either. Had a number of other yards, but never a neighbor complaint to my knowledge.
But just doing some spit-balling as everyone's neighbor experience may not be as positive, due to the honeybees, and there are some people that are just downright cantankerous no matter what the situation.
I was just wondering if any board member(s) happened to run into any major issues from their neighbors due to the proximity of their backyard beehive(s)?