Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pumpkin Lady <pumpkingal@clearwire.net>]

Doug Willhite wrote:
> For "Seed / Garden / Animal Husbandry" e-groups:
>
> Bee Catastrophe: 1/3 of Colonies Died This Winter, Worries Grow About  
> Terminal Decline
> The honeybee is responsible for pollinating 90 commercial crops  
> worldwide. What do we do if they're gone?

Except that, from what I understand, "honey bees" are an 
introduced species in the US, and they are NOT responsible 
for nearly that much pollination, and even if they are, they 
do it by displacing stuff that used to do it before they 
were introduced.

Oh, and BTW, AFAIK, beekeepers historically used to kill off 
most of their bees so they didn't have to try to keep them 
alive over the winter.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061211220927.htm

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/honey-bees-a-history/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507121949.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator

Morgan