>>Bumblebees pollinate some plants that honey bees do not, including tomatoes, raspberries and sweet peppers. 

That's a surprising statement.  My raspberries are equally visited by bumblebees and honey bees but my tomatoes are visited by neither.  One can produce varietal raspberry honey - I have not - if one is fortunate to be close to large raspberry plantings or wild raspberries.

We still have ample bumble bees in southern NY.

Waldemar





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