Especially if plantings are new it can take a bit for them to find your plants, and a few years for them to move in to nest nearby and really build their numbers up. If you’ve got a good flower buffet tho its only a matter of time! it’s also been a cold spring this year so they’ve been slow to come out.
PlasticElfEars
Novice question, but I’m also wondering how our unusual spring in the southern planes has affected you guys further north.
Oklahoma had the wettest April on record and still kept going with rain through May, so it stayed a little cooler and a LOT more lush than I can recall in the last several years. Dee Nash (@reddirtramblings) had a post today about her especially full *spigelia marilandica*, so that might be true of other pollinator source?
Jinglebrained
Thats a carpenter bee!
I have seen many carpenter bees and various wasps, but have not a single bumble bee yet. I blame the monoculture yards and the insect spraying regimens. A neighbor a half mile away has honey bees, but I haven’t seen them either.
immersemeinnature
I’m down in eastern NC and we’re finally seeing some action
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Especially if plantings are new it can take a bit for them to find your plants, and a few years for them to move in to nest nearby and really build their numbers up. If you’ve got a good flower buffet tho its only a matter of time! it’s also been a cold spring this year so they’ve been slow to come out.
Novice question, but I’m also wondering how our unusual spring in the southern planes has affected you guys further north.
Oklahoma had the wettest April on record and still kept going with rain through May, so it stayed a little cooler and a LOT more lush than I can recall in the last several years. Dee Nash (@reddirtramblings) had a post today about her especially full *spigelia marilandica*, so that might be true of other pollinator source?
Thats a carpenter bee!
I have seen many carpenter bees and various wasps, but have not a single bumble bee yet. I blame the monoculture yards and the insect spraying regimens. A neighbor a half mile away has honey bees, but I haven’t seen them either.
I’m down in eastern NC and we’re finally seeing some action