This is fascinating stuff - keep it up guys, I'd like to learn more about this process.

In the past 10 years, probably like everyone else, I've noticed a significant reduction in honeybees and lightning bugs/fireflies. I've read it may be in part to a disruption in their navigational abilities due to increased cell phone use, for honeybees I've also read it's due to a mite that can infect and destroy a colony.

What I have noticed is a huge leap in bumblebees - they are far more common than honeybees at our place now. Nature abhors a vacuum I guess?

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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