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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