Mmh, you were kind to put out sugar water to the bees, more than I've ever done for any bee-kind... too bad that you may have to kill them, I hope some beekeeper can make use of them.
It's funny how we need them and yet don't want them around, I couldn't stand bees before, but ever since I have veggies planted and now fruit trees, I really don't mind when they're around. I never start anything with them and they offer pollination, it works.
Well, that was when there were a few survivors and they had somehow wandered into the house. I could afford to be generous. I've just learned more about what I have, and now I can't be so they are going to have to be killed. No real way around it.
Last year, almost no butterflies, and the crabapple didn't bloom. It did this year, though.
That was 2009. In 2008, none of the oak trees came to fruit, and so there were no acorns for that winter. None. And I don't really recall any from Fall 2009 either.
Global weirding. But the bee thing is really bad. Really, really bad. And the bats are dying too, of some kind of nasal fungus. :(
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It's funny how we need them and yet don't want them around, I couldn't stand bees before, but ever since I have veggies planted and now fruit trees, I really don't mind when they're around. I never start anything with them and they offer pollination, it works.
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Things have been strange in our yard.
Last year, almost no butterflies, and the crabapple didn't bloom. It did this year, though.
That was 2009. In 2008, none of the oak trees came to fruit, and so there were no acorns for that winter. None. And I don't really recall any from Fall 2009 either.
Global weirding. But the bee thing is really bad. Really, really bad. And the bats are dying too, of some kind of nasal fungus. :(
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