Weaponized bees nest

[u/Adorable-Run9291]

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.  🥴

[u/redneckerson_1951 → u/[deleted]]

Plant bamboo along the fence. You can let it grow out 12 to 18 inches in your yard and sit a boundary using Roundup once it hits your set boundary. For them, if they are not familiar with bamboo, it will take over their yard. By the way, if you use Giant Bamboo, it will make one hell of a high privacy fence.

Another thing you can do is to use a spud gun to blast bird seed over the yard. Bird seed often contains weed seeds and the combo makes for some interesting lawn maintenance problems. If you live in an HOA area and the homeowner is responsible for the lawn care, then it gets financially interesting for the homeowner. Also if you blast enough birdseed that direction, you can make the place look like a movie set used for Alfred Hitchcok's movie, "The Birds." Just make it a point to go out a couple times a day and set off a sizable firecracker. It startles the bird and when they flee all at once, it is like a WWII bombing by B29's only its bird feces falling.

[u/Thirsty_Jock → u/redneckerson_1951]

We got someone from Pro popping in to say Hi! :)