So, after four days of dead bees, we see this.
They know we keep bees. We have two, “No spray! Honey bees!” signs out front.
And I welcomed them to the neighborhood with a jar of honey.
Why do this in an area that is predominantly natural?
And why in the middle of the day, which is the worst time?
Seriously? What’s a dandelion, but a flower?
So frustrated and disheartened.
All we can hope is our girls don’t go over there.
Also, we can hope that all our dandelion fluff blows in that direction, making his battle such a losing one that he finally gives up.
The Byrd and the Bees 
How ignorant!
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I don’t feel we can say anything, and I may be overreacting. It’s just coming so close after seeing our girls dying…well, I’m a little sensitive about the whole thing right now.
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My word, I wouldn’t be so forgiving. I’d gather up my dead bees and dump them on his doorstep. With perhaps a sign, saying “No more honey. Ever.”
But then, you’re more moderate and forgiving than I am.
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Well, I’d like to believe that, but the truth is it’s very difficult to know where bees are foraging. We plant flowers for them but mostly watch them fly past them and up into the sky, so it might have been something completely different.
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I take your point, but the action itself is thoughtless and irresponsible, given that he knows you keep bees. I’ll stop now, I have less right to rant than you, so newly bee-reaved…
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Beekeeping is such a gamble. They go where they want, and we have no way of knowing what they get into away from the hive. Kind of like grown children.
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Also, the deaths have dwindled, so perhaps it will all work out.
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Fingers crossed, then…
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Always. Permanently. We’re getting arthritis from crossing them so much. 🤞🙄
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Oh no!!
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To be fair, we don’t know what he sprayed. And the bees may not forage there. Just upsetting after 4 days of bee corpses.
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