I mentioned that I've got some hives in an almond orchard where some
batteries (if that's the right word for them)of Blue orchard bees were
introduced last year. I was up there today, and the one battery I saw
didn't have any bees, but the second had about a dozen of those little
hollow bamboo sections with live bees. Here is a picture of a bee leaving
it's little home.

http://www.pbase.com/image/26667362

My son and I didn't see any of these bees working the almonds, the only
bees of this species we found were a few in the immediate vicinity of the
one battery, and they were working this weed

http://www.pbase.com/image/26667364

Regards to the list
Tim Vaughan

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