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  • From: "roxann" <roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Reaction to 60 minutes piece on Bees
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:28:16 +0000

earlier this year i had thought my bees were gone, too. all spring growing
season went by without hardly one bee pollinating in my garden. of course my
squash and pumpkins did terribly. but later during the year i found the bees
- they were across the valley pollinating and quite happy over in the
wildflowers! I could hear them before I saw them, and when i made it to where
they were, I had to walk carefully through the "weeds" to make a path without
disturbing them too much. So the bees were not gone at all, but boycotting my
garden for some reason. I don't use pesticides and where we live is very
rural and sheltered by mountain ridges from any agricultural parts of the
state where pesticides are used. i wonder what made the bees avoid my garden,
which was near the house? i have another garden far away from the house and
the bees were there, just not at the garden by the house. We have no cell
phone reception in our area, either, so that can't be the issue. I wonder if
i place a hive on my side of the valley, will the bees stay there to
pollinate next spring? Or will they leave the hive and seek out the
wildflowers on the other side again? This season's bee boycott could have
been an anomaly but next year if it happens again i will suspect something
electronic or otherwise at my house is keeping them away.

Roxann, NW AR
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