All the buzz fit to sting

[quintessentone]

As for bees, could they also be eating pollen from the wrong type of plants or plants that have pesticide on them?

Posticides sound plausible to me. Luckily, we try to use as little pesticides/herbicides as possible. I like to eat straight out of the garden, so spraying poison on the plants is a bad thing.

Crazily enough, sounds like, from what I am reading, that good old pine is one of the best woods to use. I had already swapped some oak out for poplar, but it looks like I'll be using that for cabinet drawers in my shop. I'm keeping an eye open on FB Marketplace for some wide 1x pine boards for the hives. Should be some rough-cut pine I can pick up on the cheap.

TheRedneck

The thing is that you don't know what your neighbors are using on their crops/plants and bees travel far, isn't that right?