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Stings are last on my list of reasons I’d want to change their flight paths, as they really don’t seem to get to grumpy with people passing by. It’s quite disconcerting when they bump into an eye/ear/head though. Having them crap on the neighbours washing is the main urban issue I think, but good luck changing where they want to go. Fortunately most people don’t seem to recognise what the yellow splodges are.

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This!

My neighbor two house apart from ours had beehives. Through a nifty arragement of his shrubs and bushes he achieved the same effect as in this new bee-box and had his bees go up when leaving the hive. Their flight path was a parabel and they came down again in our yard.

In spring time you could not hang any cloth outside. It would get swarmed with the bees as they were clearing out the poo of their hive that they had accumulated over the winter period. It was such a mess. Every frigging spring.

If your neighbours were smart, they’d give you lots of honey. This arrangement has a long history of keeping neighbours happy. It’s a straight win and honey isn’t short - the new season is fast approaching for me, and there is still around 100kgs in the kitchen.

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