Where have all the bees gone?

john — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:02:51 +0000

Remember last year when the media, particularly in the over-reactionary U.S., when the bees started disappearing? What happened to that? I mean, have the bees come back or are they still missing? I’m currently spending some time in the coun-tree and it’s the beginning of June, and I’ve yet to see a honey bee. I’ve noticed a few bumbly-type bees, and one of those flies that pretends to be a bee to scare away bee-eating things. But no bee-bees.

The price of honey doesn’t seem to have gone up much. Although, I wouldn’t know since I bought a jar back in 1998 and haven’t finished it yet. It’s not that I don’t like honey. In fact, I love it! But I don’t like having sticky fingers. And after about the 4th time you open/close a jar of honey, the jar becomes a gooey sticky mass with the touch-appeal similar to that of drain-goo.

Maybe it’s not warm enough up here in the Lake District. Maybe they’ve all moved back to Poland after they found out all the good bee jobs were taken.

Whatever the case may bee (see what I did there?) I would like to know. I guess it’s time for a-googlin…

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Tags: bees, honey, hysteria