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Aliens came and saw that a patch of earth was deserted, of flowers ‘n’ things. So they decided to reshape, replant and renew. Which they did, and turned the desert to green.
The fields were greened and the aliens thought this was good, and the aliens advertised their green credentials and congratulated each other with great fanfare at ceremonies arranged for the purpose.
But they forgot the bees. In the process of renewal they buried the nest sites of multiple native bees (non aliens) that had developed over decades, if not millennia. And the bees didn’t come back.
Then one day a bee was seen holding on to a dried stem of grass in a nearby field, a 'deserted' field.
Just as well the aliens were short-sighted or they might have done the job ‘properly’.
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The Blue Banded Bee, asleep, more or less.
The Orange Tail Resin Bee, rescued from a watery death, with a springtail hitch-hiker.
A HAPPY PENTAX USER
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