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>Thought I would share.  As a beekeeper and a grower of soybeans I
>found the article interesting.  The idea of having bees as part of IPM 

>program is rather fascinating.

>http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39514/title/Buzzing_bees_prot
ect_plant_leaves

>Have a great weekend.
>Richard Stewart

"Honeybees don't hunt caterpillars, but Tautz says he was out
walking his dog one day, listening to the buzz of bees, when it
occurred to him that, to a caterpillar, bees’ wing beats might
sound similar to wasps’."

A snippet from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee

Evolution
Bees, like ants, are a specialized form of wasp. The ancestors of
bees were wasps in the family Crabronidae, and therefore predators
of other insects.

...so, it makes sense. I wonder if insects "hear" of feel the
vibrations of the bees' wing-currents on the vegetation...

Since we're sharing
http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm

Bees visit soy? (There's a joke in there somewhere, about them
being predominately girls, LOL! ...er, Ahem...)

BillSF9c

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