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It’s likely that some residents could be a little nervous about neighborhood beekeeping. In big cities that recently loosened restrictions, residents worried that their neighbors’ bees might not respect fence lines, and could become a stinging nuisance in their own backyards. And some people are just scared of bees. Longtime Eureka resident Katherine Camili, who recently left to attend college in the Bay Area, says she would have been frightened of nearby beekeeping. Even so, she says, “Bees are important and I do think that residents should be allowed to keep bees in the city. I would just steer clear of them and hope that I would be aware of what residents were keeping bee hives.”
When the issue comes before both city councils, members of the Humboldt County Beekeepers Association will be there, highlighting the important role of honey bees as pollinators, especially as their numbers plummet worldwide. They are crucial, says group president Lee, to “help create a healthy urban ecosystem.”
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Comment / By Kirsten Petersen / Today, 1:35 p.m.
Education regarding the life of bees and how important they are to us humans seems to me to be an essential part of growing up before the bees are gone. Dead from lots of diseases and we humans will no longer be growing up, in fact we will no longer be able to grow food and will will cease growing at all. Love them bees!!