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Anyone know what the Custom's/FDA regs are in terms of bringing honey from Canada to a Honey Show in the States?
J.J. Bromenshenk
Bee Alert
Missoula, Mt
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From: Mark Berninghausen <[log in to unmask]>
To: BEE-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 1:02 pm
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Honeybee efficiency
Larry,
I have heard that honeybees don't really actually transfer pollen from one
blueberry flower to another. They can't actually get inside the flower. That's
how I understand it anyway. But something is going on, maybe increased native
pollinator competition? I had a grower show me holes in the sides of blueberry
flowers where, according to him, bumblebees had chewed a hole in the flower.
I haven't heard a plausible explanation about what is going on when honeybees
are on blueberries. All I know is that when they aren't there crops are crappy.
Even when bumblebee colonies are brought in. If honeybees aren't there, like I
wrote before, crappy fruit set.
So, whereas native pollinators may be better suited to pollinate certain fruit
or vegetable flowers, there is something besides increased numbers that make
supplemental pollination in the form of managed colonies of honeybees what
works, completes the pollination, results in better fruit set.
I believe that it isn't true that w/out bees 1/3 or 2/3 of our fruits and
vegetable would disappear from the grocery store, but that what did get to our
produce shelves would not be fully formed and not appealing to the eye. Maybe I
am wrong.
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