The Birds, The Bees, Parasitic Disease...
Posted by:: Eddie Vroom
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:31:05 GMT
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"In their years in North America, the eight-legged pests have devastated
wild bee colonies and radically altered beekeeping".
"Honeybees pollinate about a third of the human diet and dozens of
agricultural crops".
http://tinyurl.com/5a97o
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June 23, 2004
Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:26:10 GMT
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>"In their years in North America, the eight-legged pests have devastated
>wild bee colonies and radically altered beekeeping".
>
>"Honeybees pollinate about a third of the human diet and dozens of
>agricultural crops".
>
>http://tinyurl.com/5a97o
Yep, I've kept bees, and had to chase the queen up a tree
to catch her to put in a new hive or all the bees get weird.
You can blow smoke at them, and they think the hive is
on fire, so they all start fanning and you can steal the honey!
But check this!!!
Leptos and other nectar-feeding bats pollinate saguaros, but they also pollinate
other culturally important plants such as bananas, avocados, agaves!
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/spring/Bats_PollenProtein.html