Where Are The Bees Please!!

[Gidget]

I have yet to see a bee buzzing my flowering blueberries (alright, ONE bumble)

Anyone know why? Back home the bees buzzed my flowering bushes galore.

Thanks for any help!

G

 

[Franny]

I have yet to see a bee buzzing my flowering blueberries (alright, ONE bumble)

Anyone know why? Back home the bees buzzed my flowering bushes galore.

Thanks for any help!

G

Gidget they are in Pt. Washington.....I will shoo them your way!!

 

[grace]

mosquito man.
that crap kills more than just mosquitos.
no lightening bugs either.

 

[Lynnie]

They are all over my flowers doing their groove thang!

 

[cheesehead]

They're at the golf course. Don't worry.

 

[Beach Runner]

Azaleas haven't bloomed here yet. Weird. I guess it was all of the cold weather until last week.

Normally azaleas and dogwoods here are just past peak at Masters time. I'm sure that at Augusta National they have their tricks to have the azaleas there at peak for the tournament.

Bees? Have only seen a few. Global cooling.

 

[Lynnie]

My dogwoods are in blossom here - strange that yours aren't. Azaleas are in great shape in Augusta.

 

[Gidget]

Franny, please do!!

So anyway, back to the local bees, has anyone else noticed fewer bees? Grace, we had crop dusters spraying all kinds of crap in LA AND we had the mosquito truck and we still had lots of bees buzzing around the new blossoms - so I just wonder.... someone mentioned the harsh winter.

Anyway, any local bee aficionado reading please chime in.

G

 

[NotDeadYet]

Bees have been in trouble for a few years now. It's called colony collapse disorder. If you google it you will get all kinds of stuff - many possible causes and theories - loss of biodiversity, climate change, pesticides, mites. Science Friday had an interesting program on bees the other day.
Science Friday Archives: Bees and Beekeeping
Seems many more people are getting interesting in beekeeping.
I personally have not seen "real" bees in my yard (Seagrove) in quite a while, like years. But I do have thriving carpenter bees. So far they have not done enough damage to worry me, so I'm leaving them alone. They are interesting to watch.
Have you talked to the honey guy at the Seaside farmer's market?

 

[Beach Runner]

My dogwoods are in blossom here - strange that yours aren't. Azaleas are in great shape in Augusta.

There was an editorial piece in our Sunday paper about no azaleas or dogwoods blooming yet. The writer is very sad. Normally it's a fairyland of blossoms around here.