bees 26 June 2009
Actually, bees are big favourites of mine so I take back any slight slagging off I did of them while praising the lone butterfly I saw yesterday. I have let the wild brambles in my garden go a bit nuts this year and they are going to give me masses of blackberries and in the meantime the bees are having a ball with the blossoms. The red admiral enjoyed them too. Worryingly, of course, there are a lot of unexplained bee deaths and disappearances now and it seems it’s because of the widespread use of chemicals but also intensive single crop farming. We humans are our own worst enemies and no doubt about that. If the bees die out we will be rightly shanghaied and will probably have to take to pollinating all of our crops by hand with a little fluff ball! – time consuming and something the bees do for free for us.
Am up early to leave the house in some sort of order for those that take over while I do the mad journey I told you about – today is the start of it with the easy and regular for me as getting a bus journey of Dublin to London.
