Re: [CH] "artificial" pollination with brush

Dave Sacerdote (davesas@tiac.net)
Sun, 30 Aug 1998 20:38:05 GMT

>the future. Of course, one point to ponder is that the honeybee is not
>itself native to North America (or so I've been led to believe by some
>aspiary types), so I wonder what the native pollinators are?

I haven't seen a honeybee in my garden in four years.  But I have lots of
bumblebees, those big black-and-yellow flying marbles.  They've always done
a great job of pollinating my plants, including my red savinas, cherry peppers,
hungarian yellow, and habbies (had to stay on topic <g>)  Bumblebees are
native.
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