>    A few hives are now in feijoa, though it's bloom doesn't seem very
> interesting to honeybees.  In a twenty minute observation yesterday, I saw
> three wasps, three honeybees and one carpenter bee working feijoa bloom.
> The carpenter bee was by far the most effective pollinator.  We used to
> have a tiny solitary bee that worked feijoa intensely, though it seems to
> be badly decimated, probably by pesticides on cotton.  The last year this
> bee was abundant, was the last good feijoa crop.
 
In NZ they've demonstrated pretty conclusively that it is bird
pollination for the most part, which came as a surprise to me...
 
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