Where have all the bees gone?

I have noticed a distinct lack of bees so far this year. Last year there were loads?

any suggestions as to why?

 

Probably all the wet weather we had last year, it reduced the insect population quite a bit especially flying insects (shame about ants still being here though...)

 

I have just found a bees nest in a corner of my garden - just under the fence panel ,its actually in next doors. So I seem to have plenty. I understand though that the bee shortage is a national / worldwide problem. It could be disease it could be mobile phones ! Quite a bit on the subject if you google.

 

They are all on my ajuga, it's full of them this year

 

Bumbles are still around, I have a nest on my allotment, but honey bees do seem a bit short, as in the last few years.

 

Ceanothus is chock full of bumble bees and there's a good outing of mason bees. Very few honey bees as yet - still early though.

 

they must all be round at my place because my roddie bush is full of them , i have never seen so many bees at one time on my roddie and they are big fat fluffy ones

 

Very warm and sunny here today,and I have been in the garden most of the day!

Have masses of the Poached Egg plant flowering and they are covered in very busy bees and hover fly types as are the Heucheras. The Penstomens are attracting larger type bees (don't know what sort) which do not go into the flower but are drilling a smalll hole at the back of the flower,so they are about!

Cherrio

 

We have a few Bumble Bees around but no sign of the honey bees.

This thread has broken my dream - not sure what it means so don't do a pyschology analysis on me but this Bumble Bee in my dream was all strung up in a spider's web and I found it and start to clip away all the webbing to free it. I must have woken up before I finished the job because I do not remember it flying away!

 

didn't defra announce that there was a mystery illness in wild UK honey bee's which was drastically depleting them?

 

Yes it was on the tv this morning. Apparently size for size it is like some crab the size of a saucer feeding off our bodies. the parasite even looks like a crab under the microscope. The parasite has become immune to the treatment that was previously used to kill it off.

 

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men! " -- Albert Einstein

:(

 

Terrifying thought, but 2012 is the end of the Mayan Calendar.........did they know something we don't?

 

in the bible it says that God will bring to ruin those who are ruining the earth . revelation 11;18

 

wrong thread sorry