Vanishing Bees
Personal memory by Mary Lee Mackichan
2012-2018 • Palo Alto, CA, USA
In just the last 5 years the number of bees visiting flowering plants in my yard and garden seem to have dropped about ten-fold. The lemon tree and rosemary still get some visitors, but the noisy hum I used to hear in spring has nearly stopped.
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