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arries wrote: Everyone wants to kill bees! I just don't understand it, especially since we have a world wide shortage of them. I think people don't realize where their food comes from?
There is a place in China where the bees are totally extinct, so the people have to go out and pollinate each apple blossom. [seen on PBS program about bees]
I put water out for the bees, so I have bees on my porch area all the time since, they need water to. It's hot out here in southern California, and they need water to make their honey. I keep telling my neighbors they will not harm you unless you harm them, so at least I'm educating people one person at a time...
They first started coming to an empty pot with soil in it, so I started keeping it watered, and they also come to another with just water and rocks and plants in it...[yes, I watch for mosquitoes larvae, and I haven't had any problem since.]
If the bees are not dead people should be happy and leave them alone, and don't kill them under any circumstances. They have a short life span as it is. [We have a shortage of them!!]
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[I just read in another section that bees don't need water to make honey.....? Is that true? I thought "pre" honey was 80 or 90 percent water until the bees fan the hive to reduce the water content for it to become honey as we know it...?]
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A bee person just told me that the water in the honey comes from flower nectar...
