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Re: [SG] Honeybees

Helen--

For the first time this year we have lots of honeybees here in eastern PA.
They love agastache 'Blue Fortune', and garden visitors have marveled at the
number of honeybees on it.  We've also seen them in the clover in the grass.
I don't know if this indicates any kind of trend or if we have a beekeeper
in the neighborhood, as someone suggested.

Beth Creveling
Perkasie, PA   Zone 6

At 07:52 AM 7/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Interestingly enough, there was a honeybee on my echinacea yesterday
>evening. A friend who was also in the yard and who is very knowledgeable
>about wildlife of all kinds said that she did not know of any beekeeperes
>in our area (how far do they travel? I forgot to ask) but that the wild
>ones are just about gone. She saw the animal and confirmed it was a
>honeybee, however.
>
>Bobbi Diehl
>Bloomington, IN
>zone 5/6
>
>On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Helen Gunnarsson wrote:
>
>> Can anyone give us the straight scoop on honeybees?  Are they all gone except
>> for those kept by beekeepers?  Will the wild ones ever come back?  I miss
them
>> so much--I remember there were always so many in the clover in our yard
when I
>> was growing up.  Plus I got stung by nasty yellow jackets last year and had a
>> bad reaction, making me yearn to wave a wand and transform them!
>
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