ArCaver wrote:tncaver wrote:Today, I walked my dog and observed many honey bees. I have not seen honey bees on my street for several years. Today there were almost as many as before the bee blight. However, if our government had seen fit to kill all bees off to eliminate the bee blight OR to eliminate Africanized bees, there might never have been any bees in my neighborhood again.
Maybe killing off all of any species to eliminate a problem is not the answer. Perhaps, "Live and Let Live" is a better
alternative. Maybe our bats should have the same opportunity to recover and build immunity to WNS as the honey bees
have had to build an immunity to whatever has been killing them off.
It could be that someone has placed some hives close to your neighborhood.
I brought this subject up because I read that one government agency may be considering killing off all bats in their area, in
an effort to stop the spread of WNS. Nature is very patient and evolution is a slow process. Man is impatient and known for creating a lot of problems in the natural world. Sometimes I think we might all be better off if man would learn to be patient and allow nature to do it's thing.
BTW, I live in an urban area. If there are any bee hives around here I've never seen any. However, last spring I did see a
huge swarm of bees briefly settle on a neighbor's two pear trees. I could hear their buzzing from a good distance away. Those trees were overloaded with pears that year. Perhaps those bees have found a place to live in this general area. Regardless, I
am glad to see them back, and hovering around the sweet clover and other flowering plants. Maybe my garden will do better
this year.