Bumblebees Disappearing Along With Honeybees - A Serious Problem

That's because they all moved here! Not really, just too many bees and yellow jackets. You can't wear any type of perfume, scented hair spray, lotion, you name it, the bees come after you here.

I havent seen but one large bumble bee this year. Just too many honey bees and wild african bees breeding in. They swarm my truck window when I'm on the scales, and even more so if there's food inside the truck. It's getting a bit scary~

 

Hmmm, I do believe they have moved into my hood.

Must be a west coast thing. Because we have them out the ### around here. They're so bad, we have to spray for them. To prevent damage to the wood trim on our house.

 

Same here and it's nothing to see hundreds of yellow jackets swarming our front porch. They've already done a ton of damage. I read that the bees are natural enemies to the wasps so the wasp swarming hasn't been as bad this year, but man the bees are awful!

 

I have seen alot of yellow jackets. I had two in my house over the weekend. But I haven't very many honey bees or bumble bees this year like I normally do.

 

I'm telling ya, they all came here. We've had some serious episodes with stings in our area this year. Two years ago some africanized bees killed some dogs in a back yard.

 

I can't remember how long it has been since I saw a Bumble Bee. I did notice the small honeybees seem to have been in smaller numbers though.

 

That might be, maybe the weather changes are causing them to head south.

 

The yellow jackets we have here are called paper wasps. They make combs that hang under anything available. We take at least 5 off our eaves every year. Some are as large around as a paper plate. The ones that really get ya, are the ones they build under lawn mowers that have been sitting, or other objects that you may have your hand under for some reason or another.