I had the exact same situation today…a single charged cell. I knocked it down and wondered if I’d done right…I feel better about it having read this. I’ll check again in a few days.
Our weather in Southern Michigan has been more dry than wet like the conditions up north. Crops like Corn, Potatoes, Soy Beans, Carrots, Watermelon, Seed Corn, and other fruits and vegetables are all being irrigated if possible. Anything unirrigated is stressed. We have rain in the forecast and I think the conditions should let up. I suppose the recent weather may have reduced some of the clover nectar yields. Otherwise it has been sunny and nice!
Dry soli always seems bad for nectar here, so I'm guessing probably there too. We are now into our eighth month of below average rainfall, and there has been robbing here at my home apiary each month of it and it continues now into June (our winter), which is amazing. The last significant drought here was in 1979, 80 and 81.
We have regular droughts here in Australia, and they are drought adapted to some extent, but this time I think it's just too severe.
I remember in Ethiopia they were trying to discourage planting of it because even though it grows fast it is too thirsty.
Yes, and they are an explosion waiting to happen when there is a fire. Perhaps they are like a camel and drink up water when they can?
That’s an interesting article and it will be interesting to see if your trees revive once the drought is broken. Should they die it will also be interesting to see how nature replaces them.
not just Ethiopia - the scourge of eucalyptus is a blight on many sub Saharan countries
The English came to Tasmania originally to get the eucalyptus trees for boat building as you’d run out of decent trees over there. Beat the French to them.
If emerged end of May you may still find she starts laying soon.
