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It has occurred to me that swimming pools may be a big contributing factor in the decline of bees.
I’m working on a house in the desert of Arizona for the weekend, it has a rather large swimming pool. I just spent about an hour pulling live bees out of the water, there were at least 100+ no exaggeration. I decided to stop when one almost stung my face.
In an area with little to no water, bees will look for it wherever they can. I’m curious, I haven’t actually looked, if this is something EPA or anyone trying to preserve bees might have looked into? When people think of pools or bees they don’t exactly think of them together. What do you guys think?
GlitterBug
22-25, F
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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
They drown in wetter areas too, we've destroyed so many natural bodies of water that I doubt pools have replaced those deaths
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GlitterBug · 22-25, F
Well the natural bodies of water have edges and rocks and such, somewhere bees can land. I noticed the bees tried landing on the floater for chlorine tablets, most of them would slip off into the water. I suppose you are correct though, pools more than likely don’t take more bee lives than an original body of water might. Maybe it seems more concentrated here because it’s so dry? Only body of water is a river that’s miles away. @Jackaloftheazuresand
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SW-User
An interesting hypothesis. More research is needed
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GlitterBug · 22-25, F
I think I’ll spend my free afternoon looking into it more @SW-User
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SW-User
I just saw a few articles talking about getting rid of bees from a pool because they appear to be a problem, which makes sense. And apparently the the bee decline is caused by variety of factors. I didn't look too deeply into this right now
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GlitterBug · 22-25, F
I don’t imagine it is. The pool I’m looking after didn’t have any chlorine at all so the bees I got out should recover alright, the issue is if you don’t chlorinate the pool it becomes like a pond, live things start to grow. I’d cover it but that will make it worse, too hot out here. Maybe I can find some netting to lay over the top 🤔@Earthwrap
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