On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:41:07 -0500, Terry Coombs >
wrote:

>On 7/19/2018 11:26 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:01:16 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-07-19 9:26 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
>>>
>>>> * 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 .
>>>
>>> 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
>> it's the professional beekeepers that are feeling the greatest
>> impact. Whether they are the bee keepers that truck hundreds of hives
>> around the country to pollinate various crops or whether they are
>> honey farms, they are losing a large percentage of bees every year and
>> having to buy bees from -- Hawaii?
>> Janet US
>
> * Or another climate that warms significantly earlier than their home .
>Those bought bees need queens , and those take time to get a hive up to
>strength , so many beeks have a "southern yard" that they use to build
>up in time to truck their bees around for pollination jobs .

Good to know. I'm just a person curious about a lot of things,
dabbles in a few and who reads a lot.
Janet US