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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE => Topic started by: Seeb on May 21, 2020, 04:17:55 pm

Title: Discovery about bumblebees
Post by: Seeb on May 21, 2020, 04:17:55 pm

Some of you may find this interesting https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/bumblebee-bites-make-flowers-bloom-early.html

Title: Re: Discovery about bumblebees
Post by: CoolBees on May 21, 2020, 06:45:29 pm

That does not suprise me - although I didn't know the details. ... I noticed at my house, that the decorative Plums and Cherry trees began blooming 3-4 weeks longer & with far more blooms, after I got honey bees. In year after I lost my bees - the trees went back to their "normal" bloom cycle of 1-2 weeks. The next year (and every yr since) after I got bees again, the trees bloom long and full.

So - to my observation, the bees have some level of direct control/impact on the health and flower duration of flowering trees & plants.

Title: Re: Discovery about bumblebees
Post by: Seeb on May 22, 2020, 02:38:34 pm

So - to my observation, the bees have some level of direct control/impact on the health and flower duration of flowering trees & plants.

I certainly intend to pay better attention. National Geographic had the same article and were touting it as a potential boon to agriculture if it could be replicated by humans

Title: Re: Discovery about bumblebees
Post by: Ben Framed on May 24, 2020, 09:18:37 pm

Thank you for posting this Seeb. Well worth knowing.  Very interesting.......