WAY OT: Do you see any bees in your neighborhood?

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You've all doubtless seen and heard reports lately about the disappearance of bees, which could be very serious in its implications to crops in the future.

I just noticed that our side yard, which is loaded with three foot plants of decorative rosemary, and at this time of year is usually loaded with bees, busily pollenating, doesn't seem to have even one bee in attendance. Not a one. and it's sort of spooky. I can't tell whether they're late in coming this season or what.

Anybody care to relate their bee experience this year?

Hachiroku · Answer

I/ve killed a couple of wasps, but no bees. Usually we don't get a lot of bees around here, mostly wasps, hornets and yellow-jackets. So far, no hornets or yellow-jackets. This is actually a good thing, 'cause with all the cars they like to build nests in the ones in 'storage'.

Leythos · Answer

Tons of them here in Ohio - see them in the trees and in the plants thathave already flowered.

C. E. White · Answer

I have no idea where you are. I am in North Carolina. Just this past weekend they had a bee keeper collecting bees from a tree that fell in the road. The bees attacked the road workers when they came to move the tree...

We have had an unusual winter - some warm weather, but several usually cold periods. This wrecked the strawberry and peach crops and might have hurt bees as well.

Ed

Mike Hunter · Answer

Don't you know the high CO2 level in the atmosphere, caused by burning fossil fuels in killing all the bees?  There are only around five hundred bee species left on earth  ;)mike

Cathy F. · Answer

Basically too early for honeybees here, I think - except for some daffodils, forsythia, & primroses, nothing's really blooming yet. I did see a fat bumblebee the other day, though. Except I don't know if it counts, in this case... I was under the impression that just the honeybees are affected, re: the big disappearing acts. Yes? No?

Cathy

mack · Answer

I don't know, Cathy.   I know the big news stories were about honeybees and hives and beekeepers, but now the common non-hive kind seem not to be around either.

dh · Answer

As we were eating dinner, I looked out the window and saw a big ol' bumble-bee hanging around the rhododendron that's blooming in the back yard.

badgolferman · Answer

I have bees in SE VA.  They are annoying and my four-year-old is alwaysrunning from them screaming his head off.

theoldhaneyplace · Answer

I live in SW arkansas, I am not out much, so don't really notice. but in the newspaper the other day, one of the hospitals in Little Rock had to shut down their Emergency Room for a couple hours, because there was a swarm of about 7,000 bees congregated on one of the walls near the E/R entrance.

a beekeeper came, and removed them to a good home

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