As certain as the sun rising in the morning another bee panic story makes the news.
I’m surprised there are any bees around any more, the 1973 stories I read at the time had them dying in droves and gone within a decade.
That’s one of the advantages of having lived for a long while, history tells us this story is just more Fake News.
Wow, are you right about that! I remind my kids all the time about how 40 years ago, "scientists" were certain that we were entering a new Ice Age and there wouldn't be any oil left by the year 2000.
“I’m surprised there are any bees around any more, the 1973 stories I read at the time had them dying in droves and gone within a decade.
That’s one of the advantages of having lived for a long while, history tells us this story is just more Fake News.”
My wife has small fenced in area for her roses to keep the deer out and from eating them. We have put 4 cattle watering troughs in part of that fenced in area. She raises tomatoes in three watering troughs. She has a Fig tree in a trough and a Meyer Lemon Tree about 10’ from the fig tree in the ground.
She started picking tomatoes in August and still is getting some each day from two plants still producing.
The Fig tree has just about figged out. It started providing figs in August. Besides us figging out, we have some friends and relatives who have enjoyed the figs.
The Meyer Lemon tree produced its last lemon in June. Since then, it has produced new blossoms every month. New Lemons will be picked starting about Thanksgiving. The staggering of the blossoms means a continual harvest for months. We will probably have two more blossoming months before our first freeze. That lemon tree is loaded with new lemons from the size of a thimble, to a big marble, golf ball and some hen egg size. We have to stake its limbs to keep them from breaking off as the lemons grow in size.
Besides her roses, she has other flowering plants to attract the bees. They will return this morning, when the outside temp is over 65 degrees. They will be busy until about sundown.