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On 8/06/2014 11:14 PM, Peter L Borst wrote:
> You often hear that such and such a plant is "wind pollinated" and not visited by bees. Many so called anemophilous plants are in fact exploited by bees, which find the pollen attractive and useful

I would have thought that was well known.  The question is whether they 
are pollinated by bees, i.e.  do bees increase the seed set beyond bees 
being absent?  Here abouts many of these produce poor pollen, so poor 
that many of us regard them as being detrimental rather than at all 
beneficial.  As individual bees are true to one source it is obvious 
that they will only be carrying one source.

Geoff Manning

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