I'm up here in lower alabama in zone 8b...right on the alabama/florida state line...seems honey bees are in the strangest places...or either i've never noticed them before...wanted to get some seeds off of a tall palm tree and everyone of the tall palms in this area are swamped with them...they are also all over the orange/red trumpet like vines that grow wild here...that is a normal i guess but there are more this year than i remember noticing the last few years...also the crepe myrtles here are semi-covered with them...more so than usual...i also have a couple in my morning glory bush in my yard...that's the update for this area :)

Hi There, we seem to have even more then ever, but then I have even more then ever flowers for them to pollinate. :o)

I had an interesting conversation with a bee guy. He said the commercial beekeepers can produce more hives then there is a market for.

I hear a lot of negative feedback on pesticides and bees but according to UF the biggest killer of hives is mites.

I always have an abundance of bees on my blooming palms and crepes. I can hear them before I see them.

I wish we had more again! Up until a year ago, our neighbor 2 properties over kept bees and we had tons! Then he decided to move them to another property and we don't see them nearly as often. If I had the nerve to do them myself, I would, but I have a bit of a stinging phobia, and you know phobias are never rational. :)