Carolina Gardening: where are the bees?, 1 by birdlady_liz

birdlady_liz wrote:
We actually get quite a few different varieties of bees at our place, but we one of the few nurseries that don't use pesticides, except under dire emergencies and then I go for soap and oil to smother first and I do it in early evening when all of my critters are resting. I've spent houes watching differeny bees antics. We had someone come out and they'de been to a butterfly gardening semina and the person giving the class actually said don't put your butterfly/hummingbird plants in your front yard because you will also attract bees, wasps and hornets! I couldn't believe a so-called 'expert' was warning people that bees and wasps ans hornets all behave the same and you don't want them in your yard. The honeybees are all over my blue African Basil right now and I pluck off leaves, move the pots and pull weeds around them and I have never beem stung.
It's nice to know there are others out there thinking and worrying about our bee populations.
Liz