Jim C said:


Anyone aware of the bee situation this year..I see very few

Things are fine in my back yard. I was worried about the
bumblebees this spring (must have had high mortality due
to very dry fall and then very wet winter), but even these
have come back quite a bit.

I don't see so many of the near-black honeybees this year,
just the more orange sort, so some colony may have died
(or been moved away or been re-queened, if they were
from a managed hive).

In addition to those, there are a whole host of other solitary
bees busy working the yard.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

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