Woman Bugged Over Neighbor's Parched Bees Swarming Her Property
SUTTER COUNTY (CBS13) - Living out in the country has its benefits -- sprawling acreage, sounds of peace and tranquility. But at Heather Phillips' home, it's a different story. Raging bees have buzzed away any peace and turned her yard into a hive.
"I don't want to live with them, I don't want this, and they've taken over my house, my yard, my horse troughs, my chicken houses," she said.
Next door, a few hundred yards away on private property, are boxes and boxes of beehives. When the temperature rises, the honey bees go in search for water and take over Phillips' supply.
"If I take this pond away, my troughs would be (empty), the animals would never be able to get to them," Phillips said.
After reaching out to her neighbor with not much response, she said she called the police, and for three days the bees subsided but came back. Phillips was so fed up, she started making signs that read, "Water your bees" and leaving them on their street.
"I used to have beautiful flower beds. I loved to garden. Every year it gets a bit worse and I think they're taking advantage. They don't communicate," she said.
It's been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade, but never like this. Phillips said she is forced to clean animal bowls and troughs daily and still the bees are swarming and finally has been stung one too many times.
"I can't have a barbecue or swimming pool," she said, adding, "I don't want to get a lawyer, I don't want to."
Phillips just wants these insects to leave her be, unfortunately, her neighbor continues to let it be.
CBS13 reached out to vector control, but they were closed.
