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11. We have a hive of bumblebees under

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 12:32 PM

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one of our sheds. DH is letting the clover grow in the lawn there and is not using that shed for a while.

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No butterflies this year [View all] cyclonefence Friday OP

... SheltieLover Friday #1

Don't Rebl2 Friday #2

I've got a lot of perennial coneflowers cyclonefence Friday #5

butterflies Maninacan Friday #3

Good to hear cyclonefence Friday #4

No June bugs, some butterflies and only solitary bees. Ellipsis Friday #6

Strange, no? peggysue2 Friday #8

We have a hive of bumblebees under Bettie Friday #11

I've seen exactly one Monarch butterfly Arger68 Friday #7

It is alarmingly sad dugog55 Friday #10

I used to have to wash my Arger68 Friday #16

Not many in Detroit. Kid Berwyn Friday #12

We used to have goldfinches galore, none this year. cyclonefence Friday #19

Same observation here. StarryNite Friday #14

Not a lot of butterflies, but spiders, toads, fire ants JCMach1 Friday #15

we have a lot of butterflies, bees WhiteTara Friday #17

Sad, where do you live? lark Friday #20

We noticed that here in south-central New Mexico, too duhneece Friday #21

SE PA cyclonefence Friday #23

Yes, we are in the 6th mass extinction Nigrum Cattus Friday #22

I haven't seen... GiqueCee Friday #24