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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ure pear
  • Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:52:48 -0500

There are some small hornet-looking insects going around the apple
blossoms and even smaller flies. No insects on pear blossoms except
a few black ants. Read that pear blossoms are not very attractive to
bugs. How cold does it get where you are? What kind of pears to you
have? Thanks. Zone 2/3

---- Original Message ----
From: sdw12986@aol.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ure pear
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:28:22 -0400

>
>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.
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