Eugene Makovec wrote:
> many reports of bees ignoring honey
> plants this year and not thriving. Which is the way things
> started last year.
I travel up and down California's Central Valley for my
sales job. Our crops are irrigated. Every time I stop by
flowering crops I see healthy honey bees like these:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/dava.jpghttp://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/davc.jpg
The "save the pollinators" activist groups seem to think
that if hedgerows were planted around fields like these:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/davc.jpg
native pollinators would flourish, hence reducing growers'
dependence on honeybees. I have a hard time imagining
how hedgerows could make such a meaningful difference.
Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.
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