To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Boxed Bumblebees
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:15:03 -0500
"they don't regenerate
themselves"
That's odd. Our bumblebees certainly do reproduce. they must be selling
workers only, and that means the bees are intended only for one use on a
crop that all flowers at once. I can imagine the bees getting out and
working all day, but with no home to go to at night, I can't imagine what
would be going through their tiny heads. Would they keep working hard all
day gathering pollen? Or would they just go get enough to eat and sit
around the rest of the day? Or do they go back to the box to join their
buddies, and maybe build storage cells and unload into them? Donna
P.S. Ayers pears in town are ripe, gave away 3 bags of them at work,
thought I'd failed to keep any for myself but I have a few. At home,
Moonglow will be next, then Pineapple. There has already been a squirrel at
work on my Pineapples. the Ayers tree in town is not near any easy squirrel
highway, so apparently a squirrel has simply settled in to stuff himself
till the crop is all done.