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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Was it difficult?
If I decided to do it, it would be both to help the bees and help myself to locally made honey!
I'm just in the kicking the idea around stage. I don't know if my part of the city is zoned for it, and more importantly if my wife would even put up with such a hobby, but I do know there are beekeepers in Chesapeake.
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no it wasn't difficult at all, and we lived in a regular neighborhood, not in the country. the worst thing we had to deal with was when a new queen would swarm in a neighbor's yard and we would have to go deal with it. we had very gentle bees, to the point that the spare house key was kept just inside the top of the hive closest to the house!
the only sting I got in over 10 years was stepping barefoot on a dead one