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Not only does it increase / cause fruit to happen. Two years of no pollination and mankind is done. It's that simple and that is more reason we should take care of the bees.
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Nope they imprint land marks and return to them. If a hive is moved during the day you will see all of the foragers who were out returning to the last location and they won'e be very happy.
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Yes anything he has would be a good score. I am using some stuff I got from a family friend and he was using it when I was pre teen. Of course that was only a few dayz ago.
Speaking of bees and pollination. We have two Italian Prune trees (one is only about 7-8 years old the other is probably 25 years old). The older one has maybe six prunes on it each year and the newer one hasn't had one yet. When I was a kid, the prune trees in our neighborhood were prolific. You couldn't give enough of them away and mostly they got used for throwing at each other. The first couple of years we lived on this property I thought it was because of really bad windy, rainy weather. But this year (in spite of all the rain we've had) we actually had fairly nice days while the trees were in bloom. But we had almost zero insect action during that time (no bees - no nothing). Can they bloom too early in the season for the pollinators to be active? I've been thinking about getting bees (I've always like honey bees), but was thinking it might not do the prune trees any good anyway.
We don't use any pesticides here and our neighbors don't seem like the type that would use them either, so they shouldn't be affected 'locally' by bad chemicals. And, a few weeks later into the Spring, there is a healthy amount of 'buzzing' going on in the yard. Just curious if you had any ideas re: this problem.
Not only does it increase / cause fruit to happen. Two years of no pollination and mankind is done. It's that simple and that is more reason we should take care of the bees.
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Nope they imprint land marks and return to them. If a hive is moved during the day you will see all of the foragers who were out returning to the last location and they won'e be very happy.
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Yes anything he has would be a good score. I am using some stuff I got from a family friend and he was using it when I was pre teen. Of course that was only a few dayz ago.
Speaking of bees and pollination. We have two Italian Prune trees (one is only about 7-8 years old the other is probably 25 years old). The older one has maybe six prunes on it each year and the newer one hasn't had one yet. When I was a kid, the prune trees in our neighborhood were prolific. You couldn't give enough of them away and mostly they got used for throwing at each other. The first couple of years we lived on this property I thought it was because of really bad windy, rainy weather. But this year (in spite of all the rain we've had) we actually had fairly nice days while the trees were in bloom. But we had almost zero insect action during that time (no bees - no nothing). Can they bloom too early in the season for the pollinators to be active? I've been thinking about getting bees (I've always like honey bees), but was thinking it might not do the prune trees any good anyway.
We don't use any pesticides here and our neighbors don't seem like the type that would use them either, so they shouldn't be affected 'locally' by bad chemicals. And, a few weeks later into the Spring, there is a healthy amount of 'buzzing' going on in the yard. Just curious if you had any ideas re: this problem.
