Hello All,

Ran across an article about milkweed and honeybees, published in the 
The Fresno Bee, June 16, 1926 Fresno California.

My children have a board game they like to play.
It’s called ‘Fact or Crap’ 

I’m not sure that I am to believe the ‘last paragraph‘.
Is it, Fact or crap?

About the author
Arthur N. Pack 
http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/scrapbook_p5.html 


Milkweed Article:
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/211d6017ef_0.42MB
(PDF link at bottom of the page on this link)

Or read partial clip of the article below:

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…In the case of the milkweed, we
have a plant which is partially
dependent on the help of
insects, several classes of Insects,
bees, beetles, flies and perhaps
others, can each perform the necessary
office.

The pollen is carried on discs,
joined In pairs, which are concealed
in pockets around the center of the
flower, and so placed that they can
not be removed except by some such
Instrument as the foot of an Insect.

In the course of his search for the
nectar, the foot of the visitor slips
into narrow slits in the flower. In
some cases the unlucky insect is unable
to withdraw its member, and is
held until it dies.

Numbers of bees meet their death
in this manner, and it has sometimes
been necessary to destroy a
field of milkweed to prevent the extermination
of a valuable colony of
bees.

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Best Wishes,

Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA   
‘Bees Gone Wild Apiaries' 
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles

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