I did a bit of an experiment yesterday and walked around outside and did a bee count in my entire neighbor hood block.
Honey Bees: 0
Bumblebees: 2
The weirdness of it is my azalea is in full bloom, and should be covered in both honey bees and bumble bees. (like it has been in previous years) Additionally there are usually bumblebee's in the tulips, and they seem to be leaving those alone, and are just harvesting from rhododendrons only.
I'll do another bee count later this week when it's warmer out, it was a cool day when I did the count so that might have something to do with it.
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