Bees

[NIB]

bees,bees, the musical fruit..

[Mike P]

I saw exactly one honeybee last summer. I was so shocked I had to look again to make sure I wasn't seeing things or mistaking a yellowjacket for one.

We still had quite a few bumblebees around the yard all season.

I also had a nest of bald faced hornets under one of my eaves, so that may have accounted for why I saw only that one---presumably lost--honeybee.

[Swimmer]

Only had peaches last year no apples on five trees. I think I am going to polinate them myself this year. I had plenty of honey bees show up though for the male pumpkin flowers that I let go to full unprotected bloom after I had used what male flowers I needed to polinate the female pumpkin plants I was growing. The only problem is the pumpkin flowers bloom after the fruit tree bloom has gone by.

I am going to take a q-tip or just another flower and make whoopee with all the flowers myself and see what happens. I have some really unique apple trees that I haven't been able to grow anything on so far. One tree comes from a tree planted in Maine in 1705, a Cox's Orange Pippin. I really need to eat one these apples.

[Fishpart]

No bees is bad. I had fruit on all of my five trees as long as I beat the squirrelsto it.

I think it is called Colony Colapse Disorder. Have a friend that alleges it started in Warwick, RI. I believe the PBS special refers to it starting with a colony in Australia or New Zeland. I never realized that trading bees around the globe was such big business..

[Flaptail]

I still have plenty of bees here on Cape. My wife plants flowers all along the house perimeter and we have a flower bed by the drive, always full.

What we will have in the next few months if the cicadas, been seventeen years since the last onslaught. I thought aliens had landed in the woods behind the house as the noise was eeire for days then they came by the millions. Cats loved them, nice and crunchy with chewy centers.