jimkramer wrote:
> "Pudentame" <no.one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> jimkramer wrote:
>>> Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and
>>> something that likes to eat the sweet eater.
>>>
>>> http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/NCBG032608/NCBG032608.htm
>>>
>>> From a short trip to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens on March 26,
>>> 2008
>>>
>>> Jim
>> Nice to actually see a honey-bee. They were few and far between last
>> summer.
>>
>> I hope they're makin' a comeback from colony collapse. We're gonna' be
in
>> deep kimchee if they don't.
>
> Now this is funny. You do realize that the honey bee was brought in
from
> Europe with the early (European) settlers and their crops and is
technically
> an invasive foreigner in the Americas?
>
Yes, along with many crops we now rely on to be pollinated by the
honey-bee.
> Bee-fore there were honey bees there were plenty of other native
pollinators
> here. The only things that are really going to suffer are the huge
> monoculture farms, that IMHO are an abomination anyway.
>
I don't think they're the ONLY thing that will suffer.
What happened to the native pollinators? Are there enough of them still
around to take up the slack?
As I see it, the problem is how to make a transition back to
agricultural diversity without a crash when we abandon monoculture.
> I'm still seeing ratios of about 1 to 5, honey to other bees in my area,
but
> I think that they are on a comeback, assuming that the "drought" is not
> going to be as bad this year...
>
All last summer, I only saw a single honey-bee; lots of bumble-bees &
carpenter bees, but no honey-bees.
> When's your next nice day off?
> Jim
>
>
Today (Saturday), Sunday, and theoretically next Thursday.
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