the bees are comming to my phlox which I just planted and they are not leaving, they are not buzzing, they are almost dead. I have only had the plant for about a week. so far about 4-5 large bees...live in NE ohio.
Why is it large bees are landing on my phlox, and then becomming almost dead?
they're drunk as they can get......really.... flowers with lots of nectar will heat up during the day, the nectar ferments and some of them can come up with a 10% alcohol content.....the bees that visit those flowers will hang out, hanging on, sometimes until morning..... on my Russian sage the big bees, mostly carpenter bees, get so 'lazy' we can actually 'pet' them without disturbing them at all....
same thing happens to birds who dine on over-ripe berries and then stagger when they walk and don't fly so good.....
Reply:drunk as a skunk
Reply:Maybe you should call a beekeeper. You could have solved the national problem of disappearing bees.
Reply:The plant may be poison to them. Now that could be the answer to killer bees. Hmmmm.....phlox? Where did you purchase it?
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