I live in upstate NY (near SW Vermont), and my wife and I have been talking about this within the last few days. There were a reasonable number of mining bees a few weeks ago, and a flush of bumble bees, but I haven’t seen a bee (other than Eastern Carpenter Bees and the odd honey bee) for a week or more. The garlic chives are in full bloom, and they are normally bug magnets, but I haven’t seen a single pollinator on them yet. We have honey bee hives on our property and normally they’re everywhere, but even the creeping charlie in our lawns are almost devoid of honey bees or anything else.
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