Bees may be used to deter park vandals

I like it I'd love to see a cloud of bees around the head of some spray-painting idiot.

This sounds like a Monty Python skit.

I own a farm in the state of Missouri and there is a 200 year old mansion on the back 40 acreas. It has not been lived in for 50 years. Vandels were tearing it apart. I set six hives around the house, and one huge hive inside with thousands of honey bees. The vandels were able to get in the house but thay received a surprise. In the kitchen i had a hive with 20,000 bees. Five vandels showed up at the hospital with severe bee stings and refused to tell the doctor where they received the stings. I have never had any trouble with vandles since ,but i do have plenty of honey.

Security guards about to lose their jobs were quite stung by this announcement.

Wasps and hornets might be better security being more aggressive members of the family.

Wolves and bears would be my choice.

Homeland Securibees.

..anyone who knows anything about bees..knows that a couple of puffs from a smoker makes them docile...

Those bees are difficult to train and supervise, but they work cheap!

Use the 2 most aggressive members of the family: hornets and yellow jackets.

Two summers ago a couple of would-be burglars stumbled into (literally) two hives I had placed just outside my fenceline. I know they felt the sting as they dropped about $30 worth of breaking-in tools, which now sit proudly in my toolbox!!!

I always say the beestings in life are free.

they must be planning a sting operation ...

I'm all for the bees, generally they won't bug you if you don't bug them, however, don't these punks vandalize mainly at night? The bees sleep at night.

In my beekeeping experience, beehives attract idiots. They want to be cool and try to tip it over without getting stung, or seeing how much honey they can eat before they have to quit because they are getting stung too much.

Bees are not dogs; they will not attack if unprovoked and they only sting to defend their hive or if you step on them or something. You can't train them to defend something that they don't want or live in.

If these aren't good enough tips, then how about the villainous image of bees that this stupid idea is perpetuating? Bees are not aggressive, well Apis mellifera, which I keep, er they keep me, and you're only killing bees for nothing. Apis mellifera scutellata, or your common African Honey Bee, now those could be used for security. The problem is, they do not discriminate who they sting and you would be definitely be sorry to brought them to England for again, a stupid idea.

I love beekeeping and am usually enthusiastic about articles on bees but in this case, stick to technology on this one.

I can see it now.

"Sir! Someone's defacing the property! What should we do?"

"There's only one thing we can do, son."

"Surely you don't mean..."

"There's no choice, man! We have to do it, for everyone's sake!

"Yes... *gulp*... yes, sir."

"Release... the bees."

To Bee...or not to Bee??....that Is the question!! :-D

It won't work for a number of reasons. First, there is some kind of bee killing diesease or virus or something killing huge numbers of them. Second, when the bees figure out they're working for the United Nations, all they'll do is fly around, make noise, demand nicer hives, and insist the US pays for most of the cost.

BEES TO DETOUR VANDALS? I DON'T BEELIEVE THIS! Do they really think bees are going to detour vandals? Bees are too beesy beeing honeymakers. It does sound like a good sting operation though. But really, bees don't beelong in security work. From the very beeginning they have had trouble beehaving themselves. I don't think this is going to bee a good idea! So, forget the bees, and let cops tale care of the law enforcement beesiness!! Hey vandals, bee carefull, if us bees are used for this, you'll bee sorry!

unless they are "africian-ized" bees the chance of being stung by one of them is probably less than 'none'!!!!! bees are not aggressive by and large and if left alone will leave alone.....bad/dumb idea put forth by someone who has NO idea about what they propagandize---you want PROTECTION ? hire an 'on the street'/'out of work' ex-military man to sleep in a corner somewhere and protect things!!! cures a host of problems in 1 stroke !!!!!!!!!!