Of course. But not as many as I would like, unfortunately.
Our neighbor had beehives in her garden – her brother in law was a beekeeper. But he died a few years ago and none of his two sons took over. And thus bees disappear from the landscape, one old beekeeper dying at a time
And even solitary bees are becoming distressingly rare as they are increasingly more deprived of suitable food sources due to excessive rapeseed cultivation in our country because rapeseed brings biggest profits to the corporate oligarchs ruling our agriculture. Rapeseed all around is for bees about as healthy as nothing but dry bread and water is for humans.
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Superb images.
As far as the decline in bees goes I guess everyone here has heard :
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/review-shows-catastrophic-declines-in-bug-numbers/10807270
that insects generally are inoticeable decline at themient and this is a huge worry with very grave implications indeed right?
Bees, of course, also have the Varroa mite on top of other woes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
(Yeah, wiki I know but still.)
There was also this :
https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/the-great-australian-bee-challenge—part-one/11017398
really good program on bee-keeping earlier this year broadcast in Oz. Pt II of it can be found online as well.
^ Typo fix for clarity : insects generally are inoticeable decline at themient = insects generally are in noticeable decline at the moment.
Mea culpa. I suck at typing. Did preview but missed it, sorry.