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RE: [nafex] Bee Habits
Don,
We
keep about 5 hives ourselves (my wife being the bee keeper), and she suggested
that she collect some bees from the hive and place them on the strawberry plants
to sort of wake them up to the fact that there is a nectar source nearby.
Did you ever try to do that with your bees, kind of hand hold them over to
a food source? Anyway, either the strawberries are self-fertile or
other flying objects are doing the pollinating, but I'm going to have a full
crop this year.
Brian
Brian:
I have kept
bees for over 20 years, and have learned this about
them: each bee only
works one type of flower at a time. Your bee kept
returning to the
dandelion because she had been assigned to dandelions.
That said, my bees have never been too gung-ho for strawberries.
What
pollination takes place on strawberries seems to be done by
smaller, feral
insects. They must not have much nectar or other
attraction for
classic bees. Even so, I have never noticed that
strawberries fail to
set due to lack of pollination, so they may be, to
some extent,
self-fertile, or they benefit from some air pollination.
Rgds, Don
Yellman, Great Falls, VA
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