The Honey Factory

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I agree. I have never seen the bumblebees or honeybees interfere with each other. They were both in abundance on my gooseberries.

You grow gooseberries? - Have they become legal in your county and/or state?
I have two small bushes here and my county is the only one that allows members of the ribes family to be cultivated. With the exception of the black-currant.

 

[R2elk]

What about other members of the squash plant family, like cucumbers, zucchini, acorn-, butternut-, buttercup-, ..., squash?

Squash maybe but cucumbers, watermelons and cantaloupe all have small blossoms with nowhere near the size or quantity of pollen on pumpkin blossoms.

 

[R2elk]

You grow gooseberries? - Have they become legal in your county and/or state?
I have two small bushes here and my county is the only one that allows members of the ribes family to be cultivated. With the exception of the black-currant.

There are no such restrictions here. Usually such restrictions are caused by commercial growers trying to protect their crops. My guess is that they suspect them of carrying diseases that may harm their currant crops.

Gooseberries grow wild here and have always been legal here.

 

[R2elk]

You grow gooseberries? - Have they become legal in your county and/or state?
I have two small bushes here and my county is the only one that allows members of the ribes family to be cultivated. With the exception of the black-currant.

I find Captivator and Invicta to be excellent choices.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

There are no such restrictions here. Usually such restrictions are caused by commercial growers trying to protect their crops. My guess is that they suspect them of carrying diseases that may harm their currant crops.

Gooseberries grow wild here and have always been legal here.

Almost! - The ban on families of the ribes plant-family was introduced to protect the timber industry, because these plants may spread pine rust spores. The US government fought an outright war against currants and gooseberries in the early 1900's, including the native species:

 

[R2elk]

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

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Quick! - Somebody rescue that poor frog before it get bee-napped!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Quick! - Somebody rescue that poor frog before it get bee-napped!

Frog is safe, he's in what we call a bed of frog snot! The bees are stuck!

 

[R2elk]

Frog is safe, he's in what we call a bed of frog snot! The bees are stuck!

The bees were not stuck.

I have no idea how a tree frog got here. I found it in the grass as I was mowing. I have never seen a tree frog in Wyoming before and I have been in Wyoming since 1970.

Prior to my purchasing this property, it was nothing but a sagebrush and prickly pear covered sand dune.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

The bees were not stuck.

I have no idea how a tree frog got here. I found it in the grass as I was mowing. I have never seen a tree frog in Wyoming before and I have been in Wyoming since 1970.

Prior to my purchasing this property, it was nothing but a sagebrush and prickly pear covered sand dune.

Here's a pic ohttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/9Zt_PBQGvQoQ5rA2fYw09cT3gWikQTbx4XgICBXo_mhU5QhvKe_b2WU6R83056V_sz5ucwuOFN9bcbzYKeeGdB8jXK19ZBvXzLinD18N1mtso3_MN2JlRexyiMNKyN85m8JP5l4f our Pine Barrens Tree Frog in NJ