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ct0 t1_j6obhdl wrote

How do you know there are 26 hives? Did you count the boxes? 26 boxes doesn't necessarily mean 26 colonies. What are you most concerned about? Honeybees pushing out non-natives? Killing them with the mower? The beekeeper running a commercial operations? I know there are technically limits, but he may be within them and you wouldnt know until the nj state apiarist comes by and counts. Then you have a pissed off neighbor. Just ask for a bunch of honey and mow at dusk when the bees are back in the box. source: i am a beekeeper, its selfless work honestly.

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ForeverMoody OP t1_j6oddev wrote

He told me it was 26 colonies and that he sells queens to other people. Also limits are there for safety, isn’t it problematic to produce and sell honey from 26 hives, on a 1/2 acre plot in a neighborhood where people treat lawns with pesticides/fertilizer?

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ct0 t1_j6oidkl wrote

Wouldn't be the Garden State without the bees. Welcome to NJ.

There are limits in place yes. Hes likely over them by his own description. Its up to you if you want to be that neighbor who calls. What do you think will happen to the bees if hes over the limit?

Also, fertilizer/pesticides are nothing new, most don't effect honey bees. If the bees are poisoned its likely they will die before impacting the honey in volume that would pose a risk. Any honey or produce for that matter has the same potential issues. Do you know where the honey comes from when you buy it off the shelf? He wouldn't be able to legally sell the honey without a cottage food permit.

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ct0 t1_j6obpk7 wrote

Secondly, we can use all the bees we can get.If hes been doing it a while he may be grandfathered in before the limits were enacted too. I find it funny you post this now when it is dead of winter and they're barely active.

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