The mountain laurels are out of their bloomin’ minds, which is a wonderful thing. Sure, they always go a-blossoming right about now, but this year there must have been some sort of Red Bull rainfall. The flowery showing is epic, thinking of laurel years’ past.

Once upon a Pinelands time, such a banner bloom would present as a honeybee buffet. According to plantaddicts.com, “The delicate flowers of mountain laurel attract native bees and hummingbirds like no other shade-blooming shrub.”

That’s great … if we only still had any honeybees. They are arguably the most important and beneficial insect humanity…