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Honey bees will stay in their hives. They will not move into your house, invade your car, become zombie killer flying missiles, etc. Hives will grow, so what you do is add a super, or another layer to the hive. When the hive gets big enough that it loses critical mass, you just place an empty hive right next door, spike it with a little honey or sugar water, and they take care of themselves.

Every once in a while we would love our hives over winter. If we did, we'd usually just leave the hive out and a new hive would usually move in over time. Otherwise we'd just order a new hive and the mail man would deliver them. A package of bees in the mail. It is pretty cool to see.

Tim, what you're seeing is mostly wasps and yellow jackets, but I'm sure some of them are honey bees. Most of the pesticides used these days are designed to kill honey bees immediately so they don't track the poison back to the hive. Bees are pretty fragile. There was a bunch of litigation over this in the 80s. The result was a change in the pesticides to make them more toxic to drop the bees before they got back to the hives. Still something to be careful with, though.

Honey is hypoallergenic, repells zombies, and is the one food that never spoils. It does not support the growth of bacteria. Honey burried 3000 years ago in the pyramids is still good for use today.

Now you got me all excited to get a couple of hives.