I have not yet seen a bee here in N. Central Texas, but there are a few of the Imported Cabbage Looper moths flying around. If one had to go, I wish that it were the moth.
Bill P.

I do see them here in the TX hill country...last year we were living in a shed and RV and I was cooking in a makeshift kitchen and they would swarm into the shed if I was making jelly or anything with a lot of sugar...It's so wet right now though, nothing is flying...I have lots of butterfiles too.

I have noticed the same thing as laceyvail -- a lack of honeybees (bad) and cabbage moths (good). There also don't seem to be as many bumblebees around this year as last year. However, I saw a few cabbage moths flying around today so I would imagine that their population will start to increase. And I have seen a few more honeybees just lately.

Just why you are not seeing honeybees is not clear. It is true that they are subject to difficulties with mites and colony collapse syndrome (though I think the latter is mainly a problem for big commercial beekeepers), but I suspect the real culprit was an unusually cold winter that perhaps caught many beekeepers unprepared. In any event, the lavender is going to flower soon and that will be the real test of the status of the honeybees. My solution to the honeybee problem is to install hives in my vegetable garden.

I still have plenty of bees (and wasps!), but I haven't seen a buttefly all year. Of any kind.

I guess my tiny area is lucky...no moths, but we have bees (tiny ones, tho), bumbles, and butterflies. And a lot of PEACEFUL yellowjackets and paper wasps. But then again, my area is really far from any sizable population and thus less environmental poisons.

I've been having fewer and fewer bees over the years. It's strange, as a kid I was so afraid of them because in gym class we had to do exercises out in a clover field full of bees. Now I wish we had more of them.

On the plus side, I haven't noticed any SVB moths (knock on wood!) this year when last year they were daily visitors to my garden.

Right Ya are Fliptx.....SVB has not shown its ugly head as of yet here in MS, I do however, have tons of bees, wasps, and butterflies. Yall over there wana share some of Gods H2O? Hoggin it all, aint Ya? Good Gardenen to Yuns!

With the odd weather this spring, the bees came out strong and then all disappeared. Went back to sleep, I hope. In the past week I have seen a lot more honeybees visiting the clover in the yard; I've been mowing around it. I may have to water the patches of clover for them, even the clover is turning brown in this heat.

Lots of other bugs around, and more than my fair share of wasps.

I think all of your insects flew up here! I've seen a lot of everything and my poor cabbage is all holes. Strange...