Gardening

They are heavy users of pesticides and weed killers but have been so for decades. It hasn't had an effect on our yard in that time. The bees have normally been quite heavy and we even had to move slowly around the hollyhock thicket to keep from annoying them too much. I tend to think the colony-collapse disorder has had a more widespread impact here; not even seeing the wasps anymore.

I have used a granular water-retaining agent in the soil that is similar to Perlite but longer lasting. We still have to water twice a day to keep everyone from drooping.