I've hardly seen any bees lately....heat or drought affected them, maybe. I've done the woody stick in the water bowls thing this summer. More because of the wasps...kept finding drowned wasps in the water bowls. I THINK it was more because they were starving or sick. I've almost never seen a drowned paper wasp before this summer...they are very good at lighting on water and then taking off. But this summer they were drowning often. Now the population of paper wasps is pretty low and some other wasps are showing up lately. We're going to get a break in the heat this week. Rain would be nice, but it's not in the forecast. Dreaming of autumn!
