Re: [PICS] NC Botanical Gardens

"Pudentame" <no.one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> jimkramer wrote:
>> Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and 
>> something that likes to eat the sweet eater.
>>
>> http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/NCBG032608/NCBG032608.htm
>>
>> From a short trip to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens on March 26, 
>> 2008
>>
>> Jim
>
> Nice to actually see a honey-bee. They were few and far between last 
> summer.
>
> I hope they're makin' a comeback from colony collapse. We're gonna' be
in 
> deep kimchee if they don't.

Now this is funny.  You do realize that the honey bee was brought in from 
Europe with the early (European) settlers and their crops and is
technically 
an invasive foreigner in the Americas?

Bee-fore there were honey bees there were plenty of other native
pollinators 
here.  The only things that are really going to suffer are the huge 
monoculture farms, that IMHO are an abomination anyway.

I'm still seeing ratios of about 1 to 5, honey to other bees in my area,
but 
I think that they are on a comeback, assuming that the "drought" is not 
going to be as bad this year...

When's your next nice day off?
Jim