No Apples in Nova Scotia This Year

Shusli turned me onto an article on Common Dreams, it states there were almost no apples in Nova Scotia, Canada this year. Their fruits were almost non-existent because of extreme weather changes. There were few bees, butterflies, and moths, thus very little pollination. Kinda scary.

“We saw almost no fruits of any kind this year,”" said Farley. “No plums, no cherries, nothing. And it affected all kinds of things. It was a cold, wet, late spring, and we had so few insects this year that the insectivore species of birds didn’t reproduce. The tree swallows and the barn swallows live on flying insects. They made nests, but they didn’t lay eggs and they didn’t stay around. I’ve never seen them behave that way before.”