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["Whipple, Andy" <ANWHIPPLE@TAYLORU.EDU>]

Just yesterday I noticed decent honeybee activity on my peach blossoms.
That's noteworthy because for the past several (10?) years the honeybee
activity in my small (~40 trees) orchard has been minimal, unlike
earlier years.

Andy, zone 5b in east central Indiana


Andrew P. Whipple, PhD

Professor of Biology
Taylor University
236 W. Reade Avenue
Upland, IN  46989

anwhipple@tayloru.edu

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Robert C. Mullins
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:04 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Honey Bees?

I havn't really seen any honey bees.  Lot's of solitary's though.



> For those of you in the areas hit hard last year during the Easter 
> freeze, that were then hit with the severe drought, are you seeing any

> honey bees this spring? In years past, my fruit trees are buzzing with

> thousands of them, but this spring, I have not seen a single one. In 
> fact, I have not seen much in the way of any pollinating insects, 
> except carpenter bees, which don't pollinate well due to their habit 
> of cheating by cutting holes in the base of flowers. I guess the lack 
> of flowers last year caused the populations to crash.
>
> Hal
> near Nashville, TN
>
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