Pudentame wrote:
> jimkramer wrote:
>> "Pudentame" <no.one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:47eeb462$0$30675$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> 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?
Not without native habitat or hedgerow plantings. Others have re****ted
fewer bees here this spring, I've seen plenty of native bumblebees but
nothing else.
> 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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