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I Care About The Environment

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?
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SW-User
An interesting hypothesis. More research is needed
GlitterBug · 22-25, F
I think I’ll spend my free afternoon looking into it more @SW-User
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