The honey bees, which are actually European bees and not native to
America, are being killed off by an invasion of parasitic mites.
I read recently that if you see a honey bee, you are probably
within three miles or less of a beekeeper's hives.
As for the spiders, if you've noticed a decline in them, it's
probably from my spiderphobic wife spraying. If I'm available, I
catch them and put them out and/or take pictures of them. She's a
stone-cold assassin of anything with eight legs.
Walt
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal, theologian
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jeff Keller" <jrk_om@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:51:39 -0800
>Great picture Dan. It would have been nice if the text
said "taken with my
>Olympus OM4Ti" rather than 35mm.
>
>It's worrisome that I didn't see very many spiders this summer
>nor even honey bees. The bumble bees still visited the wild
>poppies in my yard ... but I never caught them on film.
>
>-jeff
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