Are there bees where you live?

[Lilith Velkor]

I'm in the DC area and I've only seen one honeybee, but the bumblebees are fine.

[Monkeyman]

1. Three Hives in Backyard in IL

[Jim Warren]

25. A couple pics

Honey Bee

BumbleBee

[Critters2]

2. I have parishioners who raise bees for organic honey

They say theirs are fine, though they are following the news about this carefully and are a bit concerned.

[Sanctified]

42. I have never seen Organic Honey.

I was told by a bee keeper that it was totally impossible to produce Organic Honey unless you kept your bees completely confined and only allowed them to have access to organic flowers.

[Critters2]

62. Well, they don't do that, so, honestly, now that you mention it

I don't know what makes their honey organic. I'll have to ask.

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Yes

....I live near the IL/WI border.

cheers

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. All over my plum trees.

[rosesaylavee]

5. Two hives in a yard in Illinois

They're doing fine so far. It would be a fine thing if more hobbyists get involved with beekeeping due to this new crisis.

[Deb]

6. Yes

All over the dandelions and forsythia. We don't seem to have any shortage of them here, yet. (upstate ny)

[karlrschneider]

7. I see quite a few around here, eastern Okla, but I suspect they're wild...

have never noticed any commercial hives in the area.

[Catch22Dem]

8. Couldn't tell the diff between honey & bumble

But haven't seen either yet.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Bumblebees are HUGE BLACK and YELLOW bees. Honey bees are golden in color. n/t

[Lilith Velkor]

21. And honeybees are fuzzy! n/t

[Warpy]

9. No, but I've only seen a couple of them in the past 18 years.

I live in the desert and flying insects are mainly by the river.

Except flies. They're everywhere.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. I've seen only bumblebees and a BUNCH of wasps...they live in my attic.

:( I have yet to see one honey bee.:(

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Honeybees are visiting my California yard in high numbers, now

They are feeding on the Bottle Brush and Cotoneaster in huge numbers. Sadly, the bees did a poor job pollinating my almond trees earlier this spring because the temperatures were below 55f during the blossom set and I'm expecting about 20% of the normal crop.

[Rainscents]

13. I live in small town in Washington State

I seen lot of them around the flower bush yesterday when, I was out for walks.

[uppityperson]

28. Another W WA small towner and we have bees and yellowjackets.

[rasputin1952]

14. I'm in Nebraska, and we have one beekeeper that I know of...

saw his truck on the road yesterday, he had hives in the back...:)

[TheWraith]

15. The bumblebees are out in upstate NY.

We've never really had many honeybees around here, all of our major local crops are air-pollinated, like corn. But the bumblebees are doing their usual thing.

[flakey_foont]

16. tons of 'em

Nort Carolina.............the backyards was full of them this weekend

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. Yes

several hives set up in various spots by a friend of mine in the Arkansas Ozarks. Some say that the cell phone towers are what is causing the colony collapse. I find it interesting that where this fellow has bees, towers are few and far between.

[Parche]

18. Bees

I live in Oregon and have seen a lot of 'Boo' Bees here...........:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[EFerrari]

19. Yes there are but not as many as usual. I don't know what that means

if anything.

[Catchawave]

20. Virginia Beach Reporting, I see Bees...

Then again, I don't kill clover in my yard :toast: to the Bees!

[trashcanistanista]

22. Yes, No Calif foothills -

I have lavendar growing like weeds each bush is loaded with honeybees. I also plant flowers to attract them after the lavendar dies down around and in my vegie garden. I hope they stick around!

[slackmaster]

23. Yes (San Diego), I just had my first major swarm this morning

It was refreshing to see and hear them all over my bottle brush tree.

[conscious evolution]

24. I actually attended a thing for the bee's yesterday

It was at East Lake Commons in metro Atlanta.It is a 10 or 20 acre commune in Decator.Part of the grounds are dedicated to organic gardening.They have several hives for the honey and for pollinization.Some lady came and gave a talk on the bee problem and played a sacred flute for them.

Their bees seemed pretty numerous and were definitly as busy as bees can be.

What I am not seeing locally is the carpenter bees.They all seem to have disappeared.

[dweller]

33. i have carpenter/bumblebees galore

haven't noticed any honeybees yet (i may have just missed them)

in NC, and the weather has been really cooler than usual.
dp

[doc03]

26. There are a few but not as many as years ago

I don't know if people don't keep them any more or if there is an environmental reason for it.
on edit: I think I heard of some type of fungi that was killing off bees a while back.

[WyLoochka]

27. Yes - looking at them

right now buzzing around my blooming crabapple right outside the office window here in NW Wyoming.

[tenshi816]

29. A honeybee flew into my kitchen yesterday.

This is in Yorkshire in the UK. The weird thing is that it appeared kind of confused. We shooed it back out into the garden, but it was pretty strange. Once it was outside, it flew around in small circles for a while, then seemed to get itself organized and took off.

[AndyTiedye]

30. In Our Apple Tree. Lots of Them

[Thirtieschild]

31. All over our lavender bush in the sw corner of NM. Just got here but it's been colder than usual.nt

[wordpix]

32. very few in the NE anymore. Used to get stung regularly, now bees are an endangered species

Pesticides, herbicides, and development have taken their toll. :cry:

[rosesaylavee]

54. Maybe get a few hives yourself

for next year? Hobbyists keep hives all over the country and anyone can learn how to do it. This is my first spring and its more fun that I had hoped it to be.

[bdamomma]

57. we are totally messing things up aren't we?

[Dervill Crow]

34. I haven't seen any yet this year.

It's still early spring in my neck of the woods, though.

[tnlefty]

35. I was getting concerned a few weeks ago when I saw one (only) on

the grape hyacinths that I have for the purpose of giving them something until the other plants start to blossom. I was very excited to see them on my laurels a couple weeks ago in mass numbers. Last weekend I accidentally walked into a "cloud" of them buzzing around the burning bushes, but this week I haven't seen them anymore.

I have some plants that are currently blooming and some that are getting ready to bloom. I don't know if this actually means anything about the overall bee population, but I'm more than a little concerned about the overall health of the bee population.

[NCarolinawoman]

36. I saw my very first bumblebee today here in Wake County,

which is in the very central part of North Carolina. She was pollinating my broccoli plants which I let go to seed. Broccoli and cabbage always have beautiful creamy yellow blooms which the pollinators love.

But just ONE bumblebee?!!! :(
Too many people use herbicides for a fake looking "perfect" lawn. :grr:

[TahitiNut]

37. No, They're all outdoors.

:silly:

[Luna_C_06]

38. Honeybees?

What are those? Hell I've only seen one bumblebee this year.

[WA98296]

39. I'm seeing VERY few. Rural area, 1/2 north of Seattle. Where we had many.

[KoKo]

40. No bumble or honeybees here in my part of NC. And, our flowers

have already bloomed. Not one seen.

[Blackhatjack]

50. We saw some one day, and then they were gone and have not come back...Ral, NC

Neighbors yard was covered with clover, and no honeybees in sight. In the past, that yard would be swarming.

[mitchtv]

41. Yes , plenty

Coachella Valley, Calif. (desert)

[FourScore]

43. I had to coax one out of my house two days ago.

There is a hive outside my office window in some bushes. Black and yellow buzzing bees. Beautiful ones.

[Xenotime]

44. Our community sprays for bees..or something around here...

I don't quite know what they do at night but it stinks...

[Nikia]

45. Not that I have noticed

I usually don't notice many beese here until later on though. I live in Central Wisconsin.

[wildbilln864]

46. yes plenty of carpenter/bumble bees here in SC...

I saw a bee in some clover today on the jobsite but not sure it was a honeybee. It looked like one but seemed bigger than normal. :shrug:

[havocmom]

47. Usually swarming all over, hardly any these days

Not a good sign.

[misanthrope]

48. Yes...

...plenty of honeybees in the clover on the Central Gulf Coast.

[JCMach1]

49. Plenty here in the UAE... please don't hate us for our honey

:)

[Rhythm]

51. Plenty of them here in the 'wild and wonderful'

I'm in northern WV, and we have plenty of honey bees, as well as all manner of bumbles, wasps, and hornets.

I haven't been plagued by yellow jackets yet this spring... but it's still early.

[Lorien]

52. None so far this year

I live in Florida, and I only say a few last year. I walk my cat every day on a leash and she often (foolishly) leaps after bees and wasps-be I haven't seen a single bee so far this year.

[Blue_In_AK]

53. They're not around yet

because it's too early. We don't usually have bees, but a lot of yellowjackets and bumblebees.

[Matsubara]

55. No bees yet - a few hornets and plenty of mosquitos...

NT

[bdamomma]

58. I wish the mosquitos were affected and not honey bees.

[porphyrian]

56. Yes, honey, bumble, and carpenter bees (or are carpenter bees the same as bumble bees?).

We've got a bunch of gardeners in the neighborhood, and we've got oodles of flowers. There are at least one pair of hummingbirds, too, and three or more nesting pairs of cardinals. And I just heard a hawk scoping out someone's nest and being escorted away, but I didn't see them. Might have been mockingbirds.

Oh, in Tallahassee, Florida.

[Lilith Velkor]

61. Carpenter bees are small, bumblebees are huge

There might be economy-size carpenters in Florida, tho.

[porphyrian]

63. Well, we have big noisy bees I've always thought of as bumblebees...

...but we've also got carpenter bees that can bore holes as big as a quarter or even bigger, and while I've never seen one do it, I have seen pretty big bees hanging around the holes. So, either we have big carpenter bees, or bumblebees hang out in carpenter bee hives on occasion.

At any rate, I've seen honey bees around as well. In fact, a tree with a pretty large hive had to be cut down a few months ago due to disease just up the block, and I'm sure at least a few of them have relocated, because they're still visiting our flowers.

[Horse with no Name]

59. Went out to take Bluebonnet pictures and they were all in the flowers

It was the first time bees ever brought a smile to my face.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

60. I used to have hundreds this time of year buzzing my rosemary bushes

I only have a few this year, perhaps a dozen or two. I do think that it's in part due to the loss of natural hives in my area caused by the raise in development. What I have noticed this year, that I find to be very odd, is that at night when I'm sitting on my back patio I often see a bee flying around the lights. I never noticed bees being out at night before.

For clarity I'm speaking of honeybees only.

[Vinca]

64. No honey bees, but we saw a bumble bee yesterday.

I was thinking of installing a hive behind my garden. Organic gardens with bees aren't having the same missing bee problems.

[BluePatriot]

65. Bees!

They used to swarm all around our jasmine bush but there are only a few this year. Funny, I'm not sure I would have noticed had it not been for the media reports.