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At 10:19 PM 7/14/2007, James Fischer wrote:
>It was USA NATIVE bumblebees, exported and reproduced ("bred")
>overseas, and then shipped back to the USA that carried the
>European nosema in, escaped from their greenhouses (which
>happens a lot), and thereby wiped out two native species
>of bumblebees.
Bumblebees have disappeared in the McAlester, OK area. Previous to
this year, bumblebees were plentiful in my garden pollinating okra
and squash. Now, I don't see any bumblebees, only carpenterbees on
vitex blossoms. I'm wondering if the disappearance of the bumblebee
population is the result of the introduced European nosema as
discussed by Jim Fischer or the severve 2006 drought in Oklahoma.
Jim Young
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