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 pla
ce 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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