http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=188039&ac=PHnwsGeorge Muller couldn't wait for the 3,000-plus honeybees he ordered to start multiplying and pollinating the plum and apple trees at his South Berwick home. More bees, more fruit, he thought.
His neighbor, David Flores, couldn't be more horrified. The honeybee is not known for being aggressive toward people, but he still worries that children swimming in the family pool could get stung and develop allergic reactions.
Flores dropped leaflets throughout the neighborhood, and this week went before town councilors to ask for beekeeping regulations.
The issue has yet to go on a Town Council agenda, but beekeepers fear that South Berwick could become the latest in a string of communities in Maine and around the country to impose regulations on raising bees because of neighborhood complaints.
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