Not that Jim Cane hasn't tried to develop a system!
Maybe the bee community and national crop industries will finally 
start to recognize his (and the Logan lab's) decades of pioneering 
work, instead of shunning him when he suggests an approach using 
several bee species.
If it was not for the dairy/alfalfa/clover industries' support, 
the Logan lab would have long ago been just a memory.
   - John Edwards (old fan of Bill Nye's photos, also)

On Wed Jul 18 10:49:32 PDT 2007, "=?UTF-8?Q?Peter_L._Borst?=" 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bee Biology and 
>> Systematics
> Lab, Cane is now advising almond growers on how to have "a more 
> balanced
> portfolio of pollinators"
> 
>> But Cane points out that no one knows how to raise blue orchard 
>> bees in
> the quantities that would be needed for large-scale pollination.

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