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Bees ... where are they?
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Seen loads of bees here, even though the honey bee is in very real trouble and its almost panicking time considering they pollinate so many of our crops.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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Loads further along the coast in East Sussex, greenhouses are heaving with them, (slight exaggeration)I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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I have seen a fair few in my garden - Stockport Manchester.0
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Quite a lot up here on the North East coast.0
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Quite a few here in east london. And some of them are HUGE.
Each evening there are a healthy amount of normal sized bees buzzing around an unidentified climbing plant (I have been too lazy to look it up yet) in OHs garden.£34,547 (Dec 07); Current debt: £zilch (Debt free December 2010)
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Anyone else noticing an absence of bees and wasps?
I am on the west coast of Scotland, rural area near the sea, and have noticed a near complete absence of either bees or wasps particularly on cotoneaster and escallonia which have always been the feeding ground for loads of bees and wasps in my garden.
Where are they?
I think the bees are working their way upcountry do you..:rotfl: and will be with you shortly *MF* :jmortgage free as of 06/02/2008#
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Dont know the name of the red berried bush in my garden but it,s moving all on it,s own this year again. I live in the west of Scotland too, if you leave your details I,ll stick a couple of hundred bees in a jeely jor and send them over.:T:jDabbler in all things moneysaving.Master of none:o
Well except mastered my mortgage 5 yrs early :T:j
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Lots of bees this year - big fat ones. I've got a ceonothus and a honeysuckle so maybe it depends on what's growing in your garden. I haven't seen many butterflies though. (Only one!)" The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
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Thanks all for the replies, it's not that I am in an area where bees or wasps have ever been scarce, exactly the opposite - I counted the grand total of 3 bees last night over a period of about an hour, it really is noticeable ...
and I am not that sure it wasn't the same one just following me around for some company.
If many little people, in many little places, do many little things,
they can change the face of the world.
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In recent years it has become apparent that
populations of several species are in severe decline
http://www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/surveys.htm
http://www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/index.htm
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane[FONT="] —[FONT="] Marcus Aurelius[/FONT][/FONT]0
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