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- From: "Don Titmus" <ujgs2@4dirs.com>
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] more on honeybees
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:33:31 -0700
To help the wild bees, I can't think of anything better than your
suggestion, to plant things they like - preferably native plants that
native bees like. The native bees may well not be subject to the
pestilences of honeybees. I haven't heard of harvester bees - unless
they are the same as carpenter bees that live in holes in wood, and are
significant pollinators.
Kathy Evans
Another way to enhance Native bees is to install a bee block. commonly used is an old section of 4x4 wood drilled with 5/16th inch holes and placed high on the NE corner of the house or building. The native Mason bees is 30X more affective at pollination than the honey bees because "Masons" have hairs all over the body not just the legs and they fly from tree to tree not flower to flower like the honey bee thus perfect cross pollinators.
So if you want pollination put up the Bee Block
Don, Mesa AZ
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[permaculture] more on honeybees,
Kathy Evans, 03/07/2007
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Re: [permaculture] more on honeybees,
lbsaltzman, 03/07/2007
- Re: [permaculture] more on honeybees, jedd, 03/08/2007
- Re: [permaculture] more on honeybees, Don Titmus, 03/09/2007
- Re: [permaculture] more on honeybees, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 03/09/2007
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Re: [permaculture] more on honeybees,
lbsaltzman, 03/07/2007
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