Honey Bees
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Honey Bees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
While I was at my daughters soccer game today I couldn't find one single honey bee. So I googled honey bee and found this article. This is kinda alarming.
While I was at my daughters soccer game today I couldn't find one single honey bee. So I googled honey bee and found this article. This is kinda alarming.
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Oh yeah, it's been building for a while. Local beekeepers are asking for public support to expand hives in our semi-ag neighborhoods. I'm going to do it (get a hive or two) in the next year.
Very scary if agriculture is crippled...another reason for community supported agriculture. You don't want to count on somebody else far away (for your food) who might not be paying attention.
Very scary if agriculture is crippled...another reason for community supported agriculture. You don't want to count on somebody else far away (for your food) who might not be paying attention.
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I must say that i was in a huge field of clover and not one honey bee. My bil brought this to my attention last weekend and I've yet to see one honey bee anywhere I've went. According to that article it's happening other places in the world as well.
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I have a neighbor that has about 20 hives and he sells honey...last year they didn't produce much of any honey, it's the same this year.
I haven't hardly saw any bees this year either...and that's something I notice...I'm scared to death of bees.
Tim
I haven't hardly saw any bees this year either...and that's something I notice...I'm scared to death of bees.
Tim
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i havn't noticed yet and i am also scared as heck of bees.
also havn't noticed a few other critters, but maybe it is just too eraly for them? like locusts that make the loud noises, lightening bugs, crickets chirping, butterflies, and hummingbirds. oh yes, where are all the spiders?
it is so quiet around here in the evenings, no usual noises like i remember, unless i am fooling myself that i think i remember and actually it is usually like this at this time of year.
also havn't noticed a few other critters, but maybe it is just too eraly for them? like locusts that make the loud noises, lightening bugs, crickets chirping, butterflies, and hummingbirds. oh yes, where are all the spiders?
it is so quiet around here in the evenings, no usual noises like i remember, unless i am fooling myself that i think i remember and actually it is usually like this at this time of year.
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Originally Posted by bf250
also havn't noticed a few other critters, but maybe it is just too eraly for them? like locusts that make the loud noises, lightening bugs, crickets chirping, butterflies, and hummingbirds. oh yes, where are all the spiders?
Tim
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My grandfather had about 20 hives when I was growing up. I thought it was a normal thing to have to step over the honey bees in the morning collecting off the dew coverd wild flowers growing around the yard. I wish I had a place to put about 4 or 5 hives. It will be ashame if they all start leaving going somewhere else, but things like that happen when the balance of thing gets so far out of whack.
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They are not leaving to go someplace else. They are dying out. And guess what the culprit is. It's cell phones. And in particular, cell phone use by women driving SUV's!
I liked the bees.
I liked the bees.
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You want some bees??I went on vacation for 2weeks,came back a nest of carpenter bee's making their home in my garage.Must be 100's them.
Locusts are up north near Indy I-70 I must of hit a 1000's of them bugs.I had to pull over and scrape the windows a couple of times.Their still on my truck a week latter and 3 washes.
Locusts are up north near Indy I-70 I must of hit a 1000's of them bugs.I had to pull over and scrape the windows a couple of times.Their still on my truck a week latter and 3 washes.
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We have a fair amount of bees here in Central Alberta.
I have 10-20 regular bees that stop in for a Pollen drink I leave on the deck
Was watching the news the other night about a bee-keeper that had all his bee boxes stolen.
I have 10-20 regular bees that stop in for a Pollen drink I leave on the deck
Was watching the news the other night about a bee-keeper that had all his bee boxes stolen.
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Originally Posted by Keepin It Real
They are not leaving to go someplace else. They are dying out. And guess what the culprit is. It's cell phones. And in particular, cell phone use by women driving SUV's!
I liked the bees.
I liked the bees.
I'll bet the cell phone rumor was started by the same folks wanting to keep the towers from being built.
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Originally Posted by 350steve
You want some bees??I went on vacation for 2weeks,came back a nest of carpenter bee's making their home in my garage.Must be 100's them.
Locusts are up north near Indy I-70 I must of hit a 1000's of them bugs.I had to pull over and scrape the windows a couple of times.Their still on my truck a week latter and 3 washes.
Locusts are up north near Indy I-70 I must of hit a 1000's of them bugs.I had to pull over and scrape the windows a couple of times.Their still on my truck a week latter and 3 washes.