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Blue Organists's
 
Each spring as regular as day brings the night the Blue Bee Boys put
out their press annual release on how they have found a new bee to
replace honeybees for pollinating. It just is not true, all one has to
do is invest a small amount of time and money in purchasing these bees
and you will find that for other then their natural territory they are
less then useless for early pollination for the bulk of commercial tree
fruit at least here in central California.
 
My own board of these bees came out after the apricots and almond bloom
here in Los Banos and then did only replace themselves with no increase.
Soon the vacant bores will be replaced by Leaf Cutter Bees, and I must
admit that I have learned that in a early season the leaf cutter bees
come out earlier then the normal for this areas as they have already
started to fill the empty blue bee holes.
 
I have a hard time believing that those who call themselves bee
scientists do not get a bad case of diaper rash after reading this
annual report. I am sure they would say "well, we don't write our own PR
and are not responsible",...Take it from me Blue Orchard Bees will never
replace honeybees in orchard pollination, and our HoneyBee's have not
disappeared as hyped by so many for what ever their personal reason's,
mostly I suspect to gain public interest and funds for projects that
would not stand or pass any normal peer review or the daylight of
public input.
 
If you want to read this years PR Hype on the Blue Orchard Bee try this
address:
 
 
http://www.modbee.com/ag/abs0.htm
 
 
A quote from the old hat PR from the USDA at Logan, Utah:
 
 "Substitutes drafted for honeybees"
 
  "Researchers have identified some substitute bees to do the job of
  the popular European honeybee,"
 
ttul, the OLd Drone
 
 
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