True but still would have issues with pollination. I think it’s in China where there have to pollinate everything themselves. Our friend who has traveled everywhere has seen many countries who have almost no pollinators. That’s why he does bees because he came from a country that if you didn’t pollinate yourself, you don’t get food.
Mostly bees though not just honeybees. People kill many bees with traps. I never do not even the carpenter ones. I have one that visits me on the back deck and it even hangs out with me
Flies are also pollinators.
I know first hand, can't eat it and can't use them for crafting.
One year I had to hand pollinate the melons. I had so many praying mantises in the garden that there were no bugs of any kind to pollinate the melons. Of course the plants that can wind pollinate (tomatoes) did not need any help.Many peeps that do artificial pollination do so because they don't want cross pollination! Some also, do AP because they do want cross pollination.
Don't plant gourds next to squash, you'll get 'grouash'
That happened to me one year...had to hand pollinate pumpkins.
Yup. Wipe out one pollinator and it changes the whole system though. Its a chain reaction.
Sounds terrifying!!!
Honey bees aren't native in the Americas. We've come to depend on them in large part because they provide reliable pollination that can be rented and trucked to your almond farm, etc. at the right time. Many bee keepers make more money from pollination services than from honey sales. They make many of the vast monoculture farms possible.
