heath issues early in the spring that kept me from cleaning out the horses dry lot. It grew, much to my dismay, into a large area of nettles. I wanted to try to get them out of there before they made the burs they are so famous for but was not able to. When I finally thought I could start cutting them out and burning them I walked through and noticed they were covered by thousands of different kinds of bees and other pollen collectors. I really mean thousands, it was buzzing loud enough to hear as a continuous roar. I have been bemoaning the loss of bees over the last few years so of course I left the nettles. It is going to kill me cleaning them all up over the next few years but damn, I have never seen anything quite like the numbers I am still seeing. I have to walk through that mess 4 times a day. I was worried at first but I have never even been approached by a single bee. I can stand there and occasionally one will land on my leg briefly but mostly they just buzz on by with their heavy loads. I am going to call some local bee keepers and see if they want to come and get them. I cannot let this happen again so....
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