Re: [CH] "artificial" pollination with brush

=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:32:25 -0400 

At 05:20 PM 8/28/98 +0000, Celeste or Dave Anderson wrote:
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>> I was just told about pollenation, by a friend, to glue a dead honey bee to
>> a wooden stick and use the bee to hold the pollen.  Makes sense to me,
>> 'cause that's the way Nature does it, well, sort of.
>> 
>> I am going to try this next spring.


If you can find one.  The wild honeybee population has been decimated by a
mite infestation.  I've not seen a honeybee in over 2 years, and I've been
looking!


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