On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:01:16 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-07-19 9:26 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
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>> * Any ideas why the bee shortage ? FWIW I seldom see honey bees on the
>> squashes and other stuff in my garden and the hives are only a few feet
>> away . I do see lots of other pollinators working the garden , carpenter
>> bees and certain flies seem to most of that .
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>I have lots of bees around my place. I have a couple flower gardens,
>flowering shrubs, and lots of clover in the lawn. Given all the reports
>about the dropping bee population, I was surprised that there were so
>many.
>
It was mostly in the USA but several hives here were also affected.