It follows that cities should allow backyard bee keeping. To make it safer to people allergic to bees, someone should invent a hive on a pole that can be raised or lowered like a flag.
What killed two hives outright (we think) are lawn services going after mosquitoes in the neighborhood. Didn’t kill them but weakened the hive. They were subsequently taken over by fire ants and small hive beetles, each time after a split.
Bee keeping is so easy and fun and can be done through the mail. I agree with you, duke, if we could solve for allergies, beekeeping could easily be as commonplace as growing tomatoes.
I would argue for reduced use of insecticide.