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Side deck on the N side of the house. Beehive up on a stand. The tattered old shirt is an Ormond Aebi trick -- if you leave a shirt or other human-shaped item waving in the breeze in the bee yard, they will be less disturbed by people walking around the hive. It seems to work, as my girls are quite calm when I stand or walk near the hive.