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Peter quoted
> Bumblebees pollinate some
> plants that honey bees do not, including tomatoes, raspberries and
> sweet peppers.
> So when people plant
> tomatoes in their back yard or cucumbers or sweet peppers, without a
> bumblebee you will get no fruit. Like, zero.
What about the raspberries in Scotland that are pollinated by honey bees?
Also, unless you have a different cucumber to us, honey bees are used in
cucumber pollination here in Australia.
Also I saw a paper a few years back and haven't been able to find it since
about using honey bees to pollinate tomatoes in glasshouses. I think it was
either in Manitoba or Ontario.
Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
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