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Thread ID: 109159 2010-04-26 16:08:00 Apiarists Aghast, Amendment Appealing SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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880235 2010-04-28 16:54:00 Have used a small artists paint brush to pollinate flowers because the bees haven't been able to do there thing .

Fer sure?

I see teams of workers with small aspirators going from tree to tree, up and down ladders and I guess they're blow-pollinating orange and lemon trees here .

All my apple and almond trees had huge swarms of bees and have set their blooms and folded and now are creating fruit - which is both good and bad in the I may get another couple of killer freezes yet .

Today it's cold, foggy, rain coming down parallel to the ground with winds over 50 mph (81KPH) in gusts - and there's a threat of snow showers to 4,000 feet . We are at 4,200 feet/1280 meters .

The temps here today are hovering real close to freezing (32ºF/0ºC) and yesterday it was almost human body temperature (37ºC) out . Go figger!

If the trees get ice built up on them from sleet, then they are safe as the ice won't go below freezing and it them protects them .

NOTICE: Human body temperature may vary from hemisphere to hemisphere and my assessment of typical body temperature may not be the same as youse guy's . :lol:
SurferJoe46 (51)
880236 2010-04-28 21:29:00 We are having a late summer here where I live, (Indian Summer they call it. Don't know why.) temps in the mid 20s C.
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Trev (427)
880237 2010-04-28 21:32:00 Napier has Indians? SurferJoe46 (51)
880238 2010-04-28 21:39:00 Could will do. Some illegal over stayers.
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Trev (427)
880239 2010-04-30 09:51:00 Hi SurferJoe
Came across your thread and found this excellent summary on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org I have personal experience with fipronil and found it definitely causes some of the symptoms talked about.
PPp (9511)
880240 2010-04-30 10:03:00 Napier has Indians?

Tokoroa has resident Indians too. From that big lump to your right if you are facing south.
Sweep (90)
880241 2010-04-30 19:50:00 Hi SurferJoe
Came across your thread and found this excellent summary on Wikipedia . wikipedia . org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder . " target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org I have personal experience with fipronil and found it definitely causes some of the symptoms talked about .

Ain't it? Good stuff to read and C O M P R E H E N D as all the food (yes, even sheep!) need the bees .

The sheep don't need them for insemination of course, but the things they eat need bees . Some people are so nearsighted that they don't think this is important enough to cause a rally and at least some press-inches!

Everything organic (having a carbon-based life cycle) eventually concedes that pollination is not overrated at all, but rahthah important in the general scheme of things-living and maintaining that balance .

Let's start a rally for the bees . :D:wub:banana:thumbs:
SurferJoe46 (51)
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