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JDPriestly

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31. The apples or the bees fall to the ground? If the bees, do you spray your apples?

Reply to B Calm (Reply #23)

Sat Nov 2, 2013, 10:44 AM

Nov 2013

We do not spray our avocado trees. Do you grow things like milkweed or other flowering plants?

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This is what we will lose if the bees disappear [View all] MoonRiver Nov 2013 OP

Talk to a bee keeper if you don't take this seriously yet! JCMach1 Nov 2013 #1

I know! MoonRiver Nov 2013 #2

the local bee keeper who supplies my small business has lost 65-75% of his hives JCMach1 Nov 2013 #32

So sad. :-( MoonRiver Nov 2013 #38

TED talk about this.... bee expert asks us all to plant flowers Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 #13

Some of those are native to the Americas TexasProgresive Nov 2013 #3

There are 4000 species of bees native to the Americas bhikkhu Nov 2013 #4

Are those bees suffering from decline? TexasProgresive Nov 2013 #5

That's sort of like playing Russian Roulette, Uncle Joe Nov 2013 #6

Here is a partial list bhikkhu Nov 2013 #7

Thanks for the link TexasProgresive Nov 2013 #9

Also not native to America- MyNameGoesHere Nov 2013 #14

An observation. airplaneman Nov 2013 #8

Bees are hardly important caballojm Nov 2013 #10

Sadly so true. MoonRiver Nov 2013 #21

Monsanto first came for the birds, then the bees, and next ... nt SDjack Nov 2013 #26

I think we all know who's next! MoonRiver Nov 2013 #28

Tequila Throd Nov 2013 #11

After four decades of being a radical environmentalist, Zorra Nov 2013 #12

No great loss... chervilant Nov 2013 #27

Robot bees... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2013 #15

well, mostly true, but let the gardener speak! NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #16

I've noticed problems with laundry_queen Nov 2013 #17

I know. We had lots of bees two years ago, far less last summer - and we have loads of bee NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #18

And avocados. JDPriestly Nov 2013 #20

Thanks for birnging that up TexasProgresive Nov 2013 #22

Bees love weeds. Leave a few weeds in your garden, and you will have bees. JDPriestly Nov 2013 #19

I have millions of bees on my apples that fall to the ground. B Calm Nov 2013 #23

Do the insects on your decaying apples look like this Zorra Nov 2013 #30

They are not yellow jackets, but B Calm Nov 2013 #34

The apples or the bees fall to the ground? If the bees, do you spray your apples? JDPriestly Nov 2013 #31

After the apples fall to the ground, B Calm Nov 2013 #33

I think you are seeing yellow jackets. They're all over my apples too. KittyWampus Nov 2013 #35

I thought I knew what a yellow jacket looked like. B Calm Nov 2013 #36

Wasn't it Einstein that said once the bees are gone, humans will be extinct in 4 years? davidn3600 Nov 2013 #24

That sounds correct. MoonRiver Nov 2013 #25

An article talking about research linking pesticides and immune system troubles in bees Paulie Nov 2013 #29

much of this is simply not true.... mike_c Nov 2013 #37