You know I would really like to know what’s going on with the honeybees? I’ve got fruit trees and I’ve checked Michigan’s outlook and it’s not good. The news this weekend had a good article on how much we depend on the bees. The very first thing I heard all over the news is that the honeybees are disappearing due to cell phones. The radiation from the cell phones mixes up their homing device much like a bat’s. The bees cannot find their way home and die in a field somewhere because they certainly are not in the hives.
I hear nothing about cell phones anymore. Now it’s a mysterious disease called Colony Collapse Disorder. But since there aren’t any bees around to check, no one knows. And I personally don’t think we’ll hear the truth anyway if mankind is screwing them up some how. All I know is that my neighbor has bees on farm property in Hillsdale, and there are plenty. That’s a good sign. I will be looking around my fruit trees for the little guys. I have an overabundance of bumblebees, and yellow jackets I’ve noticed so far.
One of the reasons many beekeepers believe the bees are dwindling is from urban sprawl. I blogged about it, but I never thought about bees being affected by urban sprawl. Michigan bee keepers also said the warm up of weather we had way too early this year didn’t help. I have about 5 blossoms on my red apple tree. Only half of my Golden Delicious has blooms. I will have a handful of cherries and only half the pear tree blossomed.
As for ornamentals, I had no Magnolia blossoms, the Forsythia looks burnt, the Washington Hawthorne trees hardly have any blooms, I finally had to cut my roses back to the ground and they were as tall as me. My hydrangeas are struggling. That little warm spell will cost us at the market in the fall. I know the cost will be up on Michigan clover honey, my favorite. I’ll pay the price as long as I can get it.
If you don’t grow things you might not realize how important all these little things are. The little changes are like mini forecasters of what it would be like to have dramatic climate change. I love my yard in the spring and am used to having some type of tree or bush in bloom constantly over a 4-month period. Not so this year. It means they didn’t like what happened to them. Having warm weather year round sounds nice but the costs are extreme. Many of Michigan’s trees, birds, mammals, fish, grasses, flowers, fruits, vegetables wouldn’t be around. They would be replaced by plenty of bugs, pollen, mold, and possibly venomous snakes enough to want the winter freeze back again. Our lakes would suffer from constant evaporation and not necessarily get more rain. Changes in cycles are meant to happen long and slow. As nice as it was, I don’t really want an early warm up again.
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