How bad is this? I just saw a honeybee and felt like cheering it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

[Orrex]

1. Call someone on your cellphone and tell them about it!

:evilgrin:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Damn! I'd have to buy one.

[UnyieldingHierophant]

13. Now that's funny!

:thumbsup:

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. What are you? Some kinda librul or somethin"???

:evilgrin:

[Robbien]

3. you lucky sob

We've planted the garden over a week ago and now breathlessly await the flight of the bumblebee.

[bullimiami]

5. on my afternoon dog walk around the block there is a flowering bush.

and it always has bees around it and I know exactly the feeling you had.

[MadJohnShaft]

6. We have the 17 year Cicadas out now - beat that!

[shain from kane]

10. On tv, some newscaster asked an expert, why did it take 17 years for them to return?

As if they had a choice in the matter. The idiot was clueless that another species might have a different life cycle, and that cicadas had no idea that 17 of our years had passed.

[shain from kane]

7. Please don't put the last honey bee in a cage like the pathetic passenger pidgeon.

[old guy]

8. I know the feeling

Last week our flowering crab and apple trees were in full bloom and to our great joy the trees were loaded with honey bees as in years past. Also a check up on the beekeepers in our area (NW Wi) by the state inspector said the hives were in excellent shape. Good news all around.

[leftchick]

9. I have been counting them!

I know it is sad isn't it?

[hexola]

11. I seem to be seeing more than ever this year...

I really thought these things were gone - I rarely see them in my part of PA - but this year - I am seeing lots of them - perhaps the weather has given them an advantage this year...

[Imalittleteapot]

12. Never see more than 2 at a time

Our garden is full of blooming perennials that used to attract lots of honey bees, yet this year I have only seen 2 bees. I only counted 2 bees on the Mexican Plum tree that is ordinarily covered with bees in early spring. Bee watching/counting has become a pasttime. Pityful.

[KansDem]

14. I saw one the other day...I hoped it wouldn't sting me...

Not because it would hurt, but because that would mean one less honeybee!

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. You know, I've wondered if someone, somewhere, tried a little

genetic manipulation to counter the horror of the Africanized Honeybees that are sneaking into our country like illegal immigrants

and it got out of hand.

Now, no one dares admit to it.

Just a thought.

[Lasher]

16. A friend of mine has one hive that's doing fine.

I donated already.

A late freeze killed some of the blooms around here so he's putting out sugar water for them. They looked like they were doing great this week when I stopped in to buy some fresh eggs. He's not bigtime or commercial. Just a regular hick like me who likes to raise a truck garden. Gluten etc R not us.

[Parche]

17. I Just Saw A Boo Bee And I ..................

:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[bdamomma]

18. I've been having that same feeling also, thank goodness a bee!!

[Swede]

19. A cousin lost $100,00 worth of bees.

After China flooded the market with cheap honey 2-3 years ago,this was the final straw. He's in the process of selling the business.

[Tanuki]

20. Here is some good bee news:

Florida's tupelo honey bees are thriving:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/4824760.html