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Anybody here knowledgeable about bee's?

For a couple of days now i have noticed dead bee's on my flowers. I do not use poison in my garden. I could not see any spider webs so could not be spiders eating them as the bees are still in my flowers, not eaten. Why would a bee just die whilst pollinating flowers .

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    9 years ago
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    In their search for pollen, bees can range up to a mile away from the hive every day. Bees from the same hive usually search in the same area, accounting for the unusually large number you see. Just because you yourself have not used poison in your garden, someone else in the neighborhood most likely did ...

    If it had been spiders, the bees would have died in the webs. Bees, ladybugs and butterflies are all beneficial and essential for flower pollinating as well as controlling the 'bad' insects that destroy plants. Someone else's ignorance of these benefits has affected your garden as well as their own ...

    Although there are parasites and diseases that can affect all the bees in one hive, this is rare, and unlikely to be the cause of the bee corpses you have found - blame a neighbor ...

    Edit: I just read a news article yesterday about large numbers of bee deaths being reported - sorry I didn't remember to flag the reference page, or add it to this question immediately. Certain new pesticides affect the bees swarming instincts, causing them to become disoriented so the entire hive could die - it's called CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder. Once again, blame some over-eager neighbor for mass spraying ...

    I did a Google search and found several references, including this simple one ...

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/insight/20...

    Answers is a Jungle

  • 9 years ago

    Pesticides are largely responsible for the death of bees, as well as a hive bacteria that is killing bees.

    If your garden is free of pesticides, likely they are being poisoned elsewhere, and just happen to die in your garden.

    Spiders are the best natural exterminator in gardens, and even these will catch a bee from time to time, but would not leave the dead bee in the flower.

    We had two large hives in our orange grove, growing up, but never saw any large scale deaths.

    I believe the diminishing bee population is a result of polluting our environment and pesticides.

    Their natural habitat is also giving way to urbanization.

    Source(s): UC Irvine, entomology
  • 9 years ago

    During the spring and summer the worker bees work not stop, literally working themselves to death. Your garden might be a good spot for the bees to find pollen and nectar so they frequent the spot. Just odds really that some will die before they can make it back.

    Source(s): 2 years as a beekeeper
  • 9 years ago

    Why you hate bee. It is not harmful for flowers, they only collect honey. If they are more in number then they may harm you. Then you may use heavy smoke to prevent them.

    Please don't kill them anyway.

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