Neighbour - Bee keeping

[PBicecream]

Hello - looking for some opinions as I know nothing about bee keeping.

We live in a semi-detached house, town centre, with a “postage size” garden. Honestly the garden is tiny, as is the neighbours. Today, our neighbour mentioned in passing that she has 4 bee hives that she will be installing in the garden soon. This evening, I looked out my upstairs window and indeed, she does appear to be setting up said hives.

I am a bit worried about how this will impact us, especially in the spring and summer months when we use our garden. There are 2 hives up against our fence. Literally 1meter away from our patio doors. Is this allowed? I honestly don’t know what to expect or how to approach this.

Any advice or information welcome.

Thank you

I understand, just trying to put it into perspective.

It really doesn't actually hurt that much. I appreciate you've built it into a bigger thing from a psychological perspective.

All bees are welcome!

Plant some pesticide-free flowers for them!

I'd definitely ask for some honey!! Yum.

I have a garden hive!
No issues at all with neighbours, they love the honey supply
As long as inspected regularly, you'll be fine
They're lovely little things, I adore my girls 🐝

You need to deal with your problems without depriving the planet of the bees it desperately needs.

BettyBardMacDonald I'm not depriving them of living on the planet. I just don't want them on my doorstep.

I also don't see how me being scared of them is a "Problem". Many people are terrified of spiders, mice etc. neither of which bother me at all.

Design your garden so that there is always something in flower that a bee will enjoy, and drop hints to the neighbour about how much you'd appreciate a jar of local honey.

Wonderful. They won't hurt you. Just don't try and beat them away. Let them fly free.

A few years ago we noticed small yellow spots regularly appearing on our cars, windows, and window ledges. I couldn’t peg out white or pale clothes or bed linen without it getting stained with the spots but I didn’t know what was causing them.
Our window cleaner was muttering about it one day and said it was causing him more work from all the “bee spit” locally. Someone 5 minutes walk away from our house had started to keep bees.
Last year a neighbour complained to the council about it but I believe they called it bee poo!
It’s not a problem at this time of year but it will be frustrating in the warmer months not to be able to peg my washing out.

But the bees aren’t going to stay within the garden their hive is in! If there are other gardens or parks around, there will be plenty of appropriate plants. Our neighbours keep bees in a tiny garden, but the bees have a ball in our and other surrounding gardens, and on the jungly grounds of a ruined convent nearby.

I was delighted to find they kept bees, and I bear them in mind when planting. We’ve only ever had one swarm on our land that I can remember, and the neighbour just came round with a box.

Maybe we should shoot all the birds as well, then we wouldn't have to worry about bird poo on our cars and windows 🙄

Phobias aren't really amenable to logic like that, though. I'm phobic about spiders, and it has nothing to do with their ability to poison me or otherwise. It's a very instinctual reaction based on their appearance and how they move, and feels like a very primal response. I'm unbothered by bees, rats or snakes, and am wary of wasps only because I don't want to be stung - it's a completely different level of aversion.

Now I've heard everything.

The bee world is in crisis but god forbid we be slightly inconvenienced. Fuck those bees!