Dont know the difference between bumble bees and honey bees. Do Bumble Bees produce honey?
Of course honey bees are disappearing globally due to colony collapse disorder.
http://science.time.com/2013/0...
I guess the cause is still not known but glyphosate is blamed.
Several years ago I was curator of a local historic property. (1840s). One of the outbuildings because infested with bees. Actually I thought they were wasps of some kind. But a visitor happened to be a bee keeper, and said they were honey bees. And apparently this was a cyclical event because other visitors remember the bees covering the back corner of this building, and filling the space between the siding and interior plaster with honey. Fearing for the safety of the building, I was ordered to kill the bees. Fortunately, I the bees were saved by the local bee keeper, and I was spared the distasteful act of having to kill them. I don't know why the bees would be attracted to this particular building and I don't believe there were especially any pollinators in the area. But then I don't know what pollinators would have attracted them--other then the historic presence of the building that had hosted bee colonies in the past.
