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something like a credit card. In this way the stinger comes out with the venom sac full of venom and not <br />in your skin. Doing this you may have little to no pain or swelling. Educating those around you may help <br />in the event someone does get stung. <br />CODE ENFORCEMENT <br />20. Bees or hives will be considered a public nuisance when any of the following occurs: <br />a. Colonies of bees exhibit defensive or objectionable behavior or interfere with the normal use of <br />neighboring properties. <br />b. Bees or hives kept in anything other than a removable frame hive. <br />c. Hives that are abandoned or not maintained on a regular basis. <br />Code enforcement depending on the severity of the infraction will ask that corrective measures be taken to <br />resolve the problem or may determine that bees need to be removed from the property entirely. <br />By following the Best Management Practices as stated above and using a little common sense the beekeeper <br />will be able to avoid seeing Code Enforcement all together. <br />BEE GLOSSARY <br />Apiary — Location where bees are kept <br />Bee — The common domestic honey bee <br />Beekeeper — One who manages bee hives <br />Beekeeping —The keeping and maintaining of an apiary <br />Honeycomb — Beeswax cells where honey pollen and brood are stored <br />Brood — The eggs, larvae and pupa of the honey bee prior to emerging as an adult bee <br />Bee hive — location where bees live <br />Frame — A hive component where bees build their honeycomb <br />Hive — A collection of bees with one queen. This can be anywhere from a few hundred bees to many thousand <br />bees. <br />Langstroth hive — A type of hive which was designed to be expandable or contractible with frames that can be <br />removed for inspection <br />Pollination — The process of collecting pollen from one flower and depositing it on another flower. <br />Removable frame — A frame designed to be removed from a hive for inspection purposes. <br />Requeen — A process of removing a queen bee and replacing her with a new queen <br />8 <br />