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http://www.hansen-honey.com/bumblebees/index.php This is interesting! I found this on a website from a beekeeper in Central Illinois. Bees are very important but right now honey bees get all the media but there are actually many bees that do the job and these facts about bumblebees are inspiring. Enjoy! Bill Bumblebees are active at temperatures near 40°F (5°C), honeybees Hi Everybody, Recently someone asked a question about organic insecticides and I wrote this response. Enjoy! =============================================== I would be very interested to know what pesticides you use to grow your fruit organically. Thanks. ****************************** Sugar is a nice insecticide. Insects don’t have a pancreas so when they eat sugar it does not digest, Here is a real important gardening tip; Plants consume 50% of their food What that means is, once a plant begins to flower, it consumes enormous amounts of food especially just before the fruit matures and slips off the vine or stem. As I mentioned in my last post, the last three days before fruit [...] Here is an interesting factoid someone mentioned to me one time and from my observations I believe it to be true; Fruits and vegetables put most of their vitamins, So here is the big advantage that local growers have over industrial agriculture….food with flavor! We [...] |
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