Re: lack of bees
On 10/8/96 6:19AM, in message
<01IAE4660G3294DS8Y@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU>,
SCHAFFCM@snybufaa.cs.snybuf.edu wrote:
In SW Virginia - There have been very few butterflies, and honey bees.
The Monarch Butterflies were frozen out in several "wintering" places,
the honey bees are suffering from mites in the hive. Several people who
have always provided as much honey as I have ever needed don't have
any
this year - in fact they are out of the bee business. You're right -
**
anyone heard any predictions about what's going to happen here???
Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY
--
I had noticed that I got very few bee pods this year. I usually have scads
of them because I do not pick my spent blooms. Rather I leave them in
the hopes that I will have the time to evaluate each of my iris. I assumed
that the lack of bee pods was caused by the dry weather. I also notice
that this year we have almost no wasps. Normally they are a real
problem flying around and bothering everyone. This year I have only
seen 6 or 8. Wonder why there are fewer of them?
Dana Brown Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where the coldest it's ever been is
-17 on 2/8/33 and the warmest it's
ever been is 114 on 6/27/94
