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[Svetlana Brooks <svetlana.ruchev AT gmail.com>]

Dear members of PCBA,

I wonder if you could you help me with a problem. We have a little plastic 
mini-pool in the yard that our kids play in. It is connected to a hose so 
that we can turn a "sprayer" in it. I regularly change water in there and 
wash it. For the last few days there was no water in it, but it was not very 
well washed, and a little water has been leaking through the hose connection. 
So today we discovered that quite a few bees were there drinking water from 
the hose connection. We tried to hush them away, to turn the sprayer on, I 
washed the pool thoroughly, but they just seem to like it and do not want to 
leave. About a dozen bees at a time are flying over the pool or are drinking 
the water in it. I don't want my toddlers to get stung, but I don't know how 
to hush the bees away.

Would be very thankful for your advice.

Best wishes,
Svetlana Brooks