[Clara Lou]

I have a patch of wildflowers [pink evening primrose] in full bloom beginning yesterday. Today I saw no honey bees. [Last year there were hundreds of bees coming and going.] I'm hoping that maybe the flowers, having just opened yesterday, haven't been discovered yet--it was cloudy today, so maybe the bees weren't out.
I did have loads of bumblebees at my wisteria vine this past week.

[Miss Marple]

This is why I use hardly any pesticides in my garden (and believe me it is pretty tough to forego them during Japanese beetle season). I figure they need all the help they can get.

Dropping pesticides also allows for other pollinators...various other types of bees and butterflies, as well as hummingbirds.

[rock58seg]

I'm in S. Central Texas, and I have not seen a honeybee one on my flower covered lime tree, which last year was covered by both flowers and bees.