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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

Pear pollen may be unattractive to honeybees but you should see all the native pollinators on my property partying big time around pear blossoms even as many other kinds of fruit trees, weeds, and ornamentals are blooming.  Also, some pears can bare fruit carpenocarthically, I think that's the word, anyway, without seeds, particulary in favorable weather.  Southern Ca. used to have a Bartlett pear industry years ago and they'd often be grown in orchards with only that variety according to Childers.  In warm springs they seem to do the same here.  Here Seckel pears almost always have a good crop without any apparent source of cross-pollination.  zone 6, SE NY