Such a warm welcome to an old weary friend.I saw a posting from dear Nova.Where is our 'dillo????So glad all of you are here.Planting your hearts out,with such good faith!Bless you all my darlings!OUTofSPITE I'm flattered!Me responsible for you getting tangled in our Garden web?It is true there is no better way to go,than sharing and caring about each other, and the "plantfolk", that although silent to our ears, enrich our other senses so completely.And,YES,the neighbor who wears shorts in December still lives in my Building.However I've learned to accept his eccentricity.I'm knitting him a sock as we speak,get it ,a sock????????????-D

This does not sound like herbicide drift. If it was pesticides they were using then I don't know. You would have to find out what they were using to see if it could cause this. As far as your upkeep of your roses it sounds like you have been doing the same thing all along and it probably did not cause this. If it is herbicides they were using your roses will look like rose rosette disease. Good luck. Patrick

Hard to say,...I don't think it ever happened to me, at least inside the hive, outside I knew when I took honey super off when nectar flow was over, it wasn't a big deal until I blew them off. One thing,... one has to learn to read your hive with bee activity, a large hive has lots of traffic and there will be no concern in robbing this one, a small hive, one has to make sure to put entrance reducer on, this way I never had trouble. When you see a normal low hive activity at the small hive and next day ALLOT of traffic, you could have a problem, then opening the hive and see the dwindling in honey store will confirm this.

Oh heck yeah. I guess I look at friendship differently than a lot of people. Just because I've known someone a long time does not make them a friend. If someone craps on me, they're not my friend. Of course they get chances, but probably my closest friend and I have not spoken for some time. He got into a variation of a cult and I can't, rather won't deal with it. I've given him chance after chance and warning after warning but more of the drivel about politics and probably direct quotes from Fox "News". For a while, I'd prove him wrong and laugh in his face. I asked if he had the opportunity to choose the flavor of the Flavor Aid he's going to drink. I'd reply with videos of his diety du jour and prove him wrong but he'd continue to spout the rhetoric. I suspect much was an enticement to an argument. He loves a good debate. I like an intelligent discussion and don't mind if there's disagreement, that can make for a good debate. But there's limits. I finally had to go no holds barred and then he got all upset, asking why I was attacking him and insulting him. Well, I'm getting off track here, but people change. Interests change. And just because you don't see someone doesn't mean they're not a friend. Life is full of acquaintances, some closer than others and all subject to change. I think too many people are hung up on having "friends" and/or worry about losing them, rather than having quality, or at least non-toxic relationships with people. Life doesn't have to be a bowl of cherries, you can disagree with a friend and still be friends. But "friend" is more than a word to me.