On Mon, 12 May 2003 17:53:41 +0100, Kay Easton
wrote:

In article , s guy
writes
It seems like we have some honey bees nesting in our garden.


They have made
a little hole in the soil and are going in and out quite frequently.

They're not honey bees, they're mining bees. But they're 'goodies' and
should be encouraged.

Are
they OK to keep where they are as we have 2 small children

Well, I would. They won't attack without provocation. But they regard
being stepped on as provocation. You might want to tell the children not
to step on the hole, or to put a barrier around it if the children are
too small to tell.

We have about 40 holes in the edge of the lawn under and we've just put a
couple of bits of wood around the patch to remind us not to walk or work
there. We also have 2 small kids and have had no problem. They're pretty
docile on the whole and are more interested in getting in and out of the
burrows than anything else. I even had one nest in a small hole in my
motorbike. Tim