[ExI] bees again

[MB]

> New subject please: unibee
>
> Forgive me for being such a repetive bugwatcher.  Lat spring I went on and
> on about seeing so many dying bees.  To the observant bee watcher, this year
> is startling indeed.  Usually by the ides of March, my back yard is an
> obscenely extravagant display of colorful blossoms.  When at their peak
> (usually about now) I can sit next to my house and easily hear the
> collective buzz of hundreds of bees from the flowering vines on my back
> fence, eagerly devouring that abundant pollen like a bunch of wild...um,
> bees.
>
> Today is a perfect bee day, clear skies, no wind, 25C.  There is exactly one
> bee.  A busy, happy one for sure, all those blossoms and no competition, but
> still: one single lonely bee.
>

Well now, it's not just there. It's here too.  I walked back from the bank and
passed a young fruit tree in full bloom. The weather was warm enough and no wind...
and not a bee to be seen.  I checked the flowers in the beds around the Chamber of
Commerce and no bees there either.

When I got home I checked my garden and I had a *few* bees, but by then it was 6PM.

Not encouraging.

Regards,
MB