because the lifecycle of honey bees versus native bees than what they in that colony collapse. They looked at it more because they weren't sure why all of a sudden a colony died. What they have been finding is there's something called a varroa mite varroa mite destructor it's called in its I will equate it to a chip for bees. It's a small crustacean that gets on the bees, it's transferred and it carries viruses just like our chicks, the black chickens dog tickets, it carries viruses that are attacking the bees. Part of the difference in native bees versus honey bees. Honeybees are in colonies. native bees are primarily solitary. So in other words, you don't have that large grouping of insects. So it's the varroa mite is much more disruptive to the honeybee colonies. And so what happens in the winter it weakens it, it feeds on the bees as its pupating feeds on the bees fat. And so the bees that are hatched are infected and also weaker to start with. So they're in the wintertime when you can't get in there. That's when they would suddenly died. And that's what they're kind of finding out right now. Are native bees 70% of them are groundwaters they I don't know if you've ever seen like a little ant farm where they've got the little tunnels. So the bee will actually dig into the ground, make like little chambers puts her egg in there. She goes out and gets nectar and pollen makes a food ball bee bread, put it in with her egg. She then she digs another chamber, our native bees because they're not in that close quarters sharing everything. The mites don't seem to be affecting them as much. But the native bees the Queen does all the work as opposed to honey bees, you've got workers and they've got certain jobs. They live about three weeks inside the hive, raising the bees making Honeycomb, making honey, the drones and the queen. So the workload is shared by different groups as opposed to the native bees they have. One girl does it all she does the feeding the building and everything. So those ground feeders are probably about 60 to 70% of our native bees. They will also there's several that'll actually go into stems of plants. So they will lay their eggs and they'll put in like mason bees and leaf cutter bees. They'll go into a stem, lay an egg food ball, then put up a wall and another chamber wall and again 15 Maybe 20 within that. So something as a gardener can do is bmsc Gardener so at the end of the season, instead of cutting back to your plants all the way to the ground neaten it up a little bit but leave a 12 to 15 inch stem and those bees that will happen next year, your Bumble Bee will actually hibernate, the Queen hibernates in the leaf litter in your garden over the winter. So if you leave that leaf litter, she can get warmed up in the springtime and go out and do her business and then you clean it up. So it's okay to be a little bit of a messy gardener. A lot of times some of your flowers you can plant flowers that have a setback looking for in winters, you're kind of like okay, you can see the artistic part of that plant within itself. bmsc Gardener