Honey bees, an introduced species, are not the only pollinators.
I am not an entomologist, but I hope someone who has much more knowledge than I will comment on this. Is it truly as bad as they claim, or are the Rats just trying to get everyone stirred up, as they did with the recent tomato/Salmonella thing?
I don’t remember bees in my my cuke garden??
I’m paging an entomologist
I’ve been wondering the same thing as this has developed. The bees seem to be leaving the beekeepers, not dropping dead on site. Maybe they drop dead somewhere else, maybe not. Eventually could we find out beekeepers began doing something that seemed correct for the times-such as these times are-and drove the bees away, or killed them? Wouldn’t be the first thing that got messed up that way recently.
Well, I’m not an Entomologist either, but a fly, a beetle, a bird, a dragonfly, a butterfly, the wind, a person with a Q-tip and a basic understanding of biology...all can pollinate crops, trees, flowers, fruit, etc.
One can also switch to growing heirloom varieties of vegetables, no matter WHAT Monsanto tells us. ;) Most are self-pollinating, hence the reason they’ve been around for hundreds of years. They don’t need anyone but their own little selves to survive and produce. Hey! They’re Libertarian Vegetables, LOL!
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True. How did American plants get pollinated before 1492?