Photo Description I haven't seen large numbers of bees foraging since I was a child. And it's been that long since I've seen a swarm. I was very surprised this morning to see a large congregation all about my portulaca. I had no idea they liked portulaca so much. And judging from their bulging pollen sacs, there's plenty for everybody. I learned a good thing this morning. I will be sure to plant portulaca in the same place next year. And I will plant more in other places as well
Without bees, there would be worldwide, mass starvation. Their health and their abundance has been in jeopardy for years. I don't follow this issue closely, but I do make mental notes while I'm out gardening.
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Save the bees! What a beautiful photo. Look at those big, silky flowers they're hugging.
Did I ever tell you about how there were thousands of bees in our bedroom on our honeymoon? HONEYmoon! No, we did not order them, and yes, beekeeper protective outfits were used in the making of this video:
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Follow this issue closely because the biggest bee killer is your neighbor, it is Bayer. There is another reason why you should watch this closely, because if you look carefully in Bayer's past you will learn that Bayer hasn' killed bees only, and that it is every human being's duty to keep on remembering what Bayer did and why you can't trust Bayer. Bayer is nothing else than IG FARBEN. Never heard of them ? Well you'd better check !
Saving the bees, caring for the bees, protecting the bees is a first step. Yes ! they sting ! and it is painfull indeed but you get over this because you know that everyday the bees are working to keep you healthy. Now take one more step and consider a bigger one, the one with a very bad reputation, the hornet... Oh ! No ! No ! Not the hornet ! It is dangerous and useless ...
Wait a minute ! is beer one of your daily pleasures and comforts ? and so is bread ? and so is wine ? Then you have to pay your tribute to the hornets by protecting them. If you can drink beer today and eat bread and drink wine it is because hundreds and thousands of generations of hornets, (in fact female queens hornets) have passed on from one generation to the other the yeast that makes beer and wine and bread. The queen hornet which has been fed with the juice of the grape wine keeps the natural yeast of the grape wine in its body and during the winter (cold winter to which yeast can not survive) the hornet queens feeds the young hornets and transmit them that yeast, which, the now grown up hornets, will pass on in the summer time by feeding on the wine grapes.This is why the european hornet is now strictly protected by law in Germany and soon will be in the rest of Europe.There is another reason why you should take care of the hornets. The European hornet is the only insect able to attack and kill the moth which is actually destroying all the box trees all over Europe, Nothing can be done and hundreds of years old box trees are dying in less than a few days eaten by the caterpillars of that moth. It is terribly sad to see these box trees, which are essential to transmit the art of the gardens ' à la française' or the British topiar art, dying and disapearing from the european gardens and parks.
Yes, Catherine
Thank you. I thought I thanked you, earlier. I see I did not.
Thank you likekinds.
Thank you Catherine.
Betty
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