It’s spring 2009, the flowers are in full bloom, but where are all the bees?
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I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It’s 29 April 2009, well over a month since spring arrived, and you don’t have to look far to see the signs.
“From the budding of the trees and the warming of the temperatures to the animals coming out of their winter hideouts, there seems to be a promise of new birth and color in the springtime air.”
For almost all creatures that is, except for the bees. This should be the time of year for “bees to become active again and start feeding and reproducing”, but they’re nowhere to be found.
In this part of the world during this time of the year we usually have a lot of honeybees flying around and feasting on the fresh blossoms, but this year I’ve hardly seen any. This is probably why “a group of Vancouver environmentalists is trying to stop the strange disappearance of bee populations, by creating new urban habitats for the insects.”
Below you will find some information I put together in 2007 to address this issue. Unfortunately, since this is not just a Vancouver phenomenon, the information is not outdated.
“From the budding of the trees and the warming of the temperatures to the animals coming out of their winter hideouts, there seems to be a promise of new birth and color in the springtime air.”
For almost all creatures that is, except for the bees. This should be the time of year for “bees to become active again and start feeding and reproducing”, but they’re nowhere to be found.
In this part of the world during this time of the year we usually have a lot of honeybees flying around and feasting on the fresh blossoms, but this year I’ve hardly seen any. This is probably why “a group of Vancouver environmentalists is trying to stop the strange disappearance of bee populations, by creating new urban habitats for the insects.”
Below you will find some information I put together in 2007 to address this issue. Unfortunately, since this is not just a Vancouver phenomenon, the information is not outdated.
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