A lone honeybee was having its way with my rock garden
yellow clover during a sunny break in what was an otherwise cloudy day.
I never thought there would come a day when I would become
excited over seeing a honeybee, but I suppose the times they are a
changing. The dwindling agriculture in
this area just does not require many hives and the few apiarists around here
are mostly dedicated hobbyists.
Used to see honey bees all the time around here and it is pretty urban. For the last few years though, there has been a complete absence of them. All I see in my garden now now are flies and bumble bees.
ReplyDeleteHey there Glenn.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as a kid I remember my Mom and Dad's yard having more clover than grass, and the honeybees being all over, but that was back when there were apple orchards and farm fields instead of shopping malls.
Same as yours, our yard and garden gets bumble bees, carpenter bees, a fair number of humming birds, and butter flies, but the honeybees are rare.
I hope they solve that colony collapse problem.
Happy gardening!
I'm fairly rural and I still don't see enough honey bees to make me happy. To the point where I'm seriously considering putting in hives. Not cause I want my own honey, though that'd be cool, but to make sure my garden gets enough honey bee attention!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine moved to Minnesota and tried beekeeping for a couple of years, but gave it up after his colonies vanished. My Great Grandfather had hives on his farm in Tennessee, but there were fewer maladies back then.
ReplyDeleteI hope you do it! It would make for interesting reading.