Beekeeping should be allowed in suburban neighborhoods

Thanks for the response. My response refutes your first argument because you stated that a bee will not sting you, unless you go provoke its hive. And the only way to extract honey is to make physical contact with the hive and take the honey forcefully. By your second statement, you just caved in on your own argument, stating that they were not pets, so... it's no longer valid. "Surely there is biodiversity already in the ecosystem, but my statement was that "introducing honeybees in the suburbs would INCREASE biodiversity among plants." You interpreted it that honeybees would create biodiversity." This refutation makes absolutely no sense. Of course there's already a biodiversity of plants and flowers. Bees have already been introduced in North America and they're increasing biodiversity and creating some. Allowing people to bee keep will not change this effect, for the bees have already been here. There will be bees in our cities and towns as long as there are nectar and pollen-producing plants. Outlawing beekeeping tends to replace domesticated bees with wild bees, but does not make bees go away [3]. "Yes that's true indeed, but responsible beekeepers should not take all of the honey. They would discover this by researching before they start beekeeping, such as buying a book and reading it." However, all the articles and pages that are about beekeeping call it so easy. Again, this leads to my point that the beekeeper will become overconfident and possibly careless. "What casualties will result for the poor, confused keeper? Stings, death? Like I said, beginner beekeepers should research beekeeping before they start. The same is for people who also want to own dogs, cats & other pets. Do you really think that the owners of a Pit Bull that mauled my friend's face in 2007 really knew what they were doing?" Very sorry for your poor pit bull mauled friend. Anyway, casualties do result in making contact with bees [1]. Those who are allergic to bees can greatly suffer from the sting. Even for those who are not allergic, bee stings can be dangerous [2]. A 39-year-old Arizona man died last week as a result of receiving more than 300 stings from a swarm of Africanized bees, or so-called killer bees. And the Africanized bees have recently begun to move to the southern parts of the United States. "Well put out a bowl of water everyday. Dogs & Cats also need water." Stop bringing in pets into this debate. It's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand and unimportant. If you read the article about this argument that I previously and cited again [3], the two successful ways mentioned having nothing to do with leaving a bowl of water out. That would be an extremely ineffective way and not a good way to raise your bees. "Your 5th source never mentions stress occurring from beekeeping." Not directly, but I wanted to show some of the pictures of beekeeping and how it was not easy at all. There are many instructions for taking care of a hive of bees and they don't seem very easy. Why was a whole page written about the art of beekeeping? Cause it is clearly not easy. "Among the points you brought up, I did not see any that would suggest that beekeeping should be illegal in suburban neighborhoods. Just points that would discourage a hobbyist or a future beekeeper." I made the argument that neighbors will be extremely annoyed. That's why beekeeping should be made illegal so that people can hear themselves think, and if beekeeping was legal, it would immediately be rallied against by neighbors. As I stated, there will also be failure in economical development. I will now refute the 8 points you listed. 1. Honeybees have already been introduced and already help biodiversity. 2. We're not going to get rid of dogs or cats and you cannot force everyone to keep bees. And they pollinate garden crops and plants anyway, even if we didn't have beekeeping. 3. Um, exactly? People can get hurt, especially the beekeeper, and ignorant children who are playing around the hidden hive. 4. I don't understand your argument. 5. Irrelevant, but I will still refute. A tamed dog can be controlled from biting someone, but bees cannot be controlled or trained or tamed. 6. Not all, but some may find it addicting and not focus on the real economic situation. 7. Again, we are not going to outlaw dogs and cats. And these pets are much more friendly than a bee. 8. Of course they do. They constantly produce a humming sound that can seriously annoy neighbors. Just search "bees are annoying," and you will get plenty of hits. Now that my opponent's arguments are refuted, I'd like to restate and add a new argument. 1. Bees are annoying and not many want a neighbor with a bunch buzzing around. 2. (New) The queen bee is the leader of the colony who produces more worker bees. Ignorant beekeepers do not take care of their fragile queen, and she dies. In the past years, due to colder weather, many queen bees have died and worker bees cannot fly out and they die due to lack of food. We collect their food (honey) which they need to survive during cold times in winter, and by doing so, we kill off the bees, unknowingly [4]. 3. People think beekeeping is easy, become overconfident, and end up with a dead colony. 4. Biodiversity remains even without beekeeping and bees are not the only contributors. 5. Bees are very stressful to take care of. 6. Addiction leads to failure of economic development. 7. Beekeeping = not much profit = bad economy. 8. People get hurt by the stingers. For these reasons, beekeeping should be illegal in suburban neighborhoods. I await my opponent's response with excitement. Sources: 1. http://www.merck.com... 2. http://www.themedguru.com... 3. http://outdoorplace.org... 4. http://www.thedailygreen.com...