I live in Oklahoma, USA and we have had several days that the smoke from the fires in Mexico have caused a haze to be in the air. It looks like the smog that is in large cities. I have noticed that the bees are a lot less active when the haze is in the air. Could smoke from a forest fire more than 1000 miles away cause the bees to feel that they are being constantly smoked? I feel that this is having a negative effect on my bees and have seen early honey production fall behind last year. The weather has been pretty much the same as last year with the exception of the "second hand" smoke. Most of Texas is under an air quality alert because of the particulate matter the fires have thrown into the air. Richard L. Barnes [log in to unmask]