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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

We don't have honeybees here either but a few bumble bees and a few 
smaller native bees seem to do enough pollinating to set enough pears 
that they need to be thinned some years. It's early but I can now easily 
see which tiny pears were pollinated and which will drop. It looks like 
a good pear year here.

Steve in the Adirondacks


Ernest Plutko wrote:
> I have a Ure pear and a Summercrisp growing near each other.  Both
> are in flower now.  I'm eager to see how pollination does.  I read
> that pear pollen is weak.  There are no honey bees but two or three
> bumble bees are present.