> flowers? Or, do they help made the flowers larger, healthier,
> stronger in general?
> This person also wants to know if they will help her in having
> more flowers.

I would imagine they "help" have fewer flowers in plants that stop producing
flowers as they are pollinated and have no effect on other flowers (other
than to increase next year's numbers due to reseeding).  They do assist with
increasing the size, quantity and quality of fruits and vegetables that they
pollinate. Our apples are easily double the old size, despite many alternate
pollinators that were previously available (although pruning also has had
some effect) and are all usually covered with fruit (requiring thinning on
tame trees and resulting in breakage in wild pears that are not managed).  A
very old peach that never fruited the ten years before now is full each year
(although the wildlife still gets nearly 100% of its fruit).

Karen

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