That’s just stupid.
I use to play on my uncle’s bee farm and rode my bike through bees as they were flying around.
Never been stung.
In fact, if I find a bee in the house I usually scoop them up on my hand, walk outside and tell em “Go Home” as I set them loose.
Drives people crazy when I do it too but, I hate killing them.
I have a uncle who lives in South Jersey. He used to raise honey bees. I have a picture somewhere with him and his Bee Beard. Same thing. Whenever I visited him I never worried and was never stung once.
My wife keeps a couple of hives in our back yard. I run the lawn mower around them, pick figs off our tree just a few feet from the hives, and I’ve been stung once. Very interesting creatures to observe.
None of our neighbors have complained as far as I know and we’re right in the middle of town.
I hope the cops can get the vandals and the owner can get his 50K back. I don’t know what goes on in some peoples heads.
If the neighbor’s kids are afraid of bees, that is the parent’s problem-not the beekeeper’s-so put little hazmat suits on them before letting them out of their bubble-can’t have them exposed to the natural world...
There are several people who keep bees and sell honey on just about every road out here-local honey is a big selling item at the farmers’ markets and health food stores in the area-I’m pretty sure if some ass*** wrecked a beekeeper’s personal property and income like that, they’d get a visit from the injured party they would not like or forget-frontier justice is still done in rural areas...