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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-43--1002808699 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Nellie, I wouldn't necessarily jump to conclusions early on. Here in my garden in Halifax there are lots of ants. We have peonies in the garden and the flower heads are (as per usual) thick with them. Also many straw-coloured small ants under stones. We don't get that many honey bees wandering through the area, but there are lots of bumble bees, as well as flower flies, Polistes wasps, small bees, robber flies, Lucilia illustris, Harmonia axyridis, and many other normal late-spring insects. Our currents and gooseberries are thick with fruit, so something has been very effectively pollinating them. All the best, Chris On 8-Jun-07, at 11:22 AM, nellie wrote: > I have made a discovery. Please check your area for the Formicidae > family. I have no large black ants and I found a very few of the > smaller size on my driveway. No ants at all on my tree trunks,or > flowers. > > Re. bees I found none except for one big bumble-bee this morning. > It had difficulty clinging to the wild rhodora blossom. It kept > falling down and flying back attempting to gather nectar ,in a > sunny area. No other bees in my garden or on my blooming apple > tree. Yesterday my friend checked her blooming 3 apple trees and > one cherry tree and did not find any bees. This is serious, what > can we do about it. Is anyone looking for the cause and are there > more insects affected? > > > Nellie Snyder, Crousetown, Lunenburg Co. N.S. > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-43--1002808699 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Nellie,<DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">I wouldn't necessarily jump to conclusions = early on. Here in my garden in Halifax there are lots of ants. We have = peonies in the garden and the flower heads are (as per usual) thick with = them. Also many straw-coloured small ants under stones. We don't get = that many honey bees wandering through the area, but there are lots of = bumble bees, as well as flower flies, <I>Polistes</I> wasps, small bees, = robber flies, <I>Lucilia illustris, Harmonia </I><I>axyridis</I>, and = many other normal late-spring insects. Our currents and gooseberries are = thick with fruit, so something has been very effectively pollinating = them.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span"><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>All the best,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV= >On 8-Jun-07, at 11:22 AM, nellie wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New = Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: = 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV = class=3D"Section1"><P class=3D"MsoNormal"><FONT size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"><SPAN style=3D"font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; = font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I have made a = discovery. Please check your area for the Formicidae family. I have no = large black ants and I found a very few=A0 of the smaller size on my = driveway. No ants at all on my tree trunks,or = flowers.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class=3D"MsoNormal"><FONT size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"><SPAN style=3D"font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; = font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Re. bees I found = none except for one big bumble-bee this morning. It had difficulty = clinging to the wild rhodora blossom. It kept falling down and flying = back attempting to gather nectar ,in a sunny area. No other bees in my = garden or on my blooming apple tree.=A0 Yesterday my friend checked her = blooming 3 apple trees and one cherry tree and did not find any bees.=A0 = This is serious, what can we do about it. Is anyone looking for the = cause and are there more insects = affected?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"><SPAN style=3D"font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; = font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; = ">=A0</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P = class=3D"MsoNormal"><FONT size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial"><SPAN = style=3D"font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; = "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Arial; = font-size: 13.3333px; ">Nellie Snyder, Crousetown, Lunenburg Co. = N.S.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> = <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">(902) 424-6435 <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Email <<A = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></F= ONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px