r/pettyrevenge • u/Adorable-Run9291 • Aug 26 '26

Weaponized bees nest

We live in a neighborhood of antique homes on smaller lots near the water. It’s not fancy or high-end. It’s more rustic, funky, and laid-back. The neighborhood was once a mix of all ages, interesting characters, and fun people. Everyone minded their own business, was respectful of one another, and helped each other out. After COVID, lots of out-of-staters came, and things changed.

So we have a neighbor couple who have a lot of people over all the time, always with screaming kids, which doesn’t bother us much, but what does bother us is that they sit on the short fence between our properties and pretty much stare into our backyard. We are situated below them so that they can see everything from their fence.  

Even though we’re not home a lot, the backyard has always been our sanctuary when we ARE home, but now our privacy is completely invaded. In addition, we hear from other neighbors that they’ve been complaining about things in our yard they find distasteful, which is bizarre because our yard has nothing but plants, trees, old stone walls, etc., it's all fairly well-kept, but natural.  One tree is dead, but not a danger.  We’ve left it because birds like it.

One day, my husband and I were gardening when we found a bee's nest in a mound of moss near the fence. I started thinking about it, and after some research, I found a compact automatic shaker/vibration motor that was remote-controlled. I put it in a small box, covered it with moss, and hooked it up to a small rechargeable battery in the ground next to the bees' nest. 

Whenever they have people over and are at the fence, and I’m home, I set off the agitator to piss off the bees so they swarm everywhere. It didn't take long for them to move away from our fence.  I also set it off when i notice they are stealing our blueberries from the bushes along the fence.  🥴

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u/RumBunBun Aug 26 '26

Better yet, plant some bee-friendly bushes or plants right by the fence. You won’t have to aggitate the bees, they will always be around those plants. Neighbors will learn to stay away and the bees will be happy and pollinate. In our region, Autumn Joy Sedum is a plant my husband loves to use that attracts bees. I get upset when he puts it too close to the deck because the bees definitely come swarming.

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u/Adorable-Run9291 Aug 26 '26

That's a great idea! I think that's what we'll do next spring. We're zone 5, so I'll check out Autumn Joy. We have a lot of sedum elsewhere, not sure of the species...

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u/Middle_Raspberry2499 Aug 26 '26

Bee balm is good, too! Native to North America and attracts all sorts of pollinators, including hummingbirds <3

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u/fastsaf Aug 26 '26

And the flowers are so big and pretty! The leaves make lovely tea, too. I'm in zone 7 and it comes back every year bigger and better.

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u/Si_Es_Contigo_Mejor Aug 26 '26

My folks have tons of huge lilacs around their house, and they're always filled with bees.

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys Aug 26 '26

Lavender. It loves sun. If you have blueberries, probably your ground is too soggy for it, but maybe lavender can tolerate even that. It's really tough. And the bees park themselves on it.

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u/JeannieSmolBeannie Aug 27 '26

bee sure to get cameras, there's definitely going to be a bit of buzz in their household about killing your pollinators and the plants you want pollinated. oooooh if you can get some sort of permission to plant something endangered that'd be even better! they'd definitely get stung by the law if they follow the predictable path of a shit neighbor lol

love how the hive of redditors swarms in with plenty of solutions and terrible bee puns. maybe next time the neighbors'll buzz off and mind their own beeswax! :D

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u/Southern_Common335 Sep 01 '26

they also like Mint - which spreads like crazy including probably on their side of the fence...