no bees in the garden .. why !!!

[Riz]

i have not spotted any bees in my garden yet... its weird because this time last season they were swarming around my thistle plant, and the thistle plant has bloomed with flowers, absolutely no signs of any bees, not even ONE at the moment... plenty of ladybirds though.... !!??????



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[Kirsten]

That's really odd! Do you see other little insects flittering around? Maybe even without the bees they can get your pollination done?

2 funny bee stories - 1) last year we used to have these huge bumblebees that loved my eggplant flowers. Now bees have all these sacs on the sides of their legs to carry pollen from flower to flower, and one day I came out to see this giant bumblebee just sitting on the flower and not moving. I honestly thought it was dead until I got a little closer and saw that literally every spare inch of this bee was being used to carry pollen. I think it just got greedy and picked up more than it could carry, LOL! Eventually I got a little closer and the bee was irked and flew away rather slowly with its enormous load of pollen.

2) I saw the funniest ad online recently. The guy was basically "selling bees" - as in, he had a swarm of bees that had formed a nest in his house and needed to be exterminated. Instead of calling an exterminator, he decided to sell them - "have a shortage of bees in your garden? come get them for free! I won't help you take them out though" :D

[Riz]

LOL whats his e-bay handle ill buy some of him ?

maybe its just a worldwide decline of the bee !?

[Foz]

lol at the stories kirsten

ive only noticed one or 2 so far in my garden

[Harjun]

That's really odd! Do you see other little insects flittering around? Maybe even without the bees they can get your pollination done?

2 funny bee stories - 1) last year we used to have these huge bumblebees that loved my eggplant flowers. Now bees have all these sacs on the sides of their legs to carry pollen from flower to flower, and one day I came out to see this giant bumblebee just sitting on the flower and not moving. I honestly thought it was dead until I got a little closer and saw that literally every spare inch of this bee was being used to carry pollen. I think it just got greedy and picked up more than it could carry, LOL! Eventually I got a little closer and the bee was irked and flew away rather slowly with its enormous load of pollen.

2) I saw the funniest ad online recently. The guy was basically "selling bees" - as in, he had a swarm of bees that had formed a nest in his house and needed to be exterminated. Instead of calling an exterminator, he decided to sell them - "have a shortage of bees in your garden? come get them for free! I won't help you take them out though" :Dstrange because the bee's purpose of visiting the flower is to actually take the nectar and not the pollen :o
The fact that it picks up pollen is just nature, the bee is oblivious to the fact it is picking up pollen and moving it from flower to flower.
It only wants the nectar from the flower.

[Riz]

ok i am seeing a few now in the garden :)