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Title: Honey Bee 1

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Created: Wed, 08/13/2008 - 9:24am

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marto-marto

at 09:48 on August 13th, 2008

In relation to the Honeybee story i can say that i have deffinitely noticed a reduction in the numbers of flowers blooming over the past eighteen months or so and i have also noticed a reduction in the Honeybee and Bumblebee numbers around the Parks and Gardens in the Greater Dublin area .
I believe a contributing factor to this recent downturn is related to the heavy rainfall over this time .I have even seen bees drowned by the sudden downpours and also the flowers in bloom are being pelted with the rain and being discolored and knocked to the ground thus making it harder for the surviving bees to access to the pollen etc
and also not forgetting the seeds of the flowers getting washed away miles from their natural habitat