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bee question
Rachael Simpson wrote:
Where I live, we are surrounded by turkey and hog houses: literally - the closest "people" house is 1 mile away. The bees have all disappeared around here too. Now the powers that be at the turkey & hog houses have to put out fly bait for the flys. The last couple of years the flys have increased while the bees (of all varieties) have decreased. Could it be that the flys have become immune to the bait while the bees have become susceptible to it? Or might it all be stemming from where the county sprays for the 'skeeters'? just my musings.........any opinions? Rae Can't say I have ever seen bees attracted to the fly baits so don't think that would be a connection. Cycles of limited bee disappearance is nothing new. It has gone by a number of names such as spring dwindle, May disease, disappearing disease, autumn collapse and fall dwindle disease documented as far back as the late 1800's. Lar |
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