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Re: Sustainable Urban Bee Density
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Gene Ash <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Jan 2019 06:40:57 -0600
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a Ruth snip followed by > my comment.. 
Thank you for this correction Rusty, as a Californian (and not a mellitologist, just a beekeeper) I know just a few things about my local bee populations-  just enough to get me in trouble I guess.

>I did not know that was even a word! Given how my hillbilly tongue can brutalize a word I don't think I shall ever take the opportunity to use the word.  Yes most of us have about the same level of knowledge.. some recognize the limitation and some evidently do not.  When I got involved with the Bee lab and the folks in the entomology department I asked as to how many species of native bee pollinators there are in Texas and the only answer I got was.... between 400 and 800 species... so I guess even they know the limitation of what they know. Many of these (I was informed) may attend only one plant species and therefore habitat destruction, fragmentation or climate change may be what invariable makes them go extinct.

Gene in Central Texas... 

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