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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] bumble bee as pollinator

I've been around bumblebees all my life here.  I even find it useful to plant borage to encourage them in the garden as they pollinate beans and peas to give better set.  Guess the species here are just less aggressive.  Of course I used to keep bees, so stinging insects don't bother me that much.
-Lon Rombough
> From: "Bruce Hansen" <brucehansen@acd.net>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:06:36 -0400
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: RE: [NAFEX] bumble bee as pollinator
>
> Ah! Life must be easy in Oregon. I know a bumble bee and I suspect you have never bothered a nest. Sweat bees (underground) are also aggressive but usually if I run fast they give up in a few yards. Although, when watering some new trees last summer I disturbed a nest (flooded), a few of them kept up the chase for 30 or so yards.
>  
Bruce