No bees? Not just strange, but scary | Inquirer | 04/26/2007

April 27th, 2007

No bees? Not just strange, but scary | Inquirer | 04/26/2007

And it’s not just honeybees that are missing. Honeybees, after all, are immigrants from Europe, and the Americas survived quite nicely without them before their arrival with the colonists. But the native bees - ground bees and bumblebees, for example - are gone, too. The only bees I’ve seen since the spring began are wood bees - large, clumsy-looking, bumblebee-like creatures that bore neat circular holes into the wood of the house and lay their eggs in solitary nests. Thank heavens for them, or there wouldn’t be a bee on my property.

But even several hundred wood bees can hardly compensate for the total absence of other pollinators.

What’s happening here?

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