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Subject:	Re: Honey bees not needed for apples?
From:	Juanse Barros <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:54:19 -0300
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Mark Berninghausen <
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> I maintain that there isn't enough known or understood about crop
> pollination. My blueberry grower in NC knows that he gets the best crops
> when he not only has a lot of hives of honeybees in his farm, but when he
> also has a lot of bumble bees and NC blueberry bees. So he is careful about
> what he sprays and when he sprays.
>
>
Agree totally. Same blueberry pollination experience downhere.

So I think some one will have to tell the apple growers to stop using
carbamates as fruit thinner if they want to have wild pollinators ;)

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