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Sat, Oct 18, 14 at 5:22
| Many large fruit growers are beekepers as well or at least hire in hives of bees. How are you handling your pollination requirements? We keep hives of bees though they are increasingly difficult to care for. I've been a beekeeper for the last 20 or so years. I found this article to be interesting on spacing etc. for pollination http://extension.missouri.edu/p/g6001 |
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| I keep mason bees. |
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| It is so sad to me that I 'maybe' saw three honey bees this past summer. I have a lot of mason bees and bumbles, however. I offered a bee keeper my small orchard of 30 trees to place a hive, but he wanted to charge me $3,000.00 to do it and no honey for me. Outrageous, so I've done with less pollination. Yes, that dollar figure is correct. Mrs. G |
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| ltilton mason bees are a great idea. Mrs. G that is outrageous and a little hard for me to understand. $30- $300 seems a little more like what t should be. Some of my neighbors spray when the fruit trees are in bloom so that may be what he is worried about but a hive only costs $200 with bees here. Why not just buy a hive for that price? I hate to admit it but I did not kill wasps this year because there was such a bee shortage. I plant more grapes than they could ever eat for their fall food and in the spring they were working flowers just like everything else. I never thought I would resort to keeping wasps for some of my pollination. |
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| I found this article from Cornell on fig tree pollination interesting |
Here is a link that might be useful: fig tree pollination
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