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Anonymous:
Can anyone tell me if honeybees will pollinate the following:

Cereal (Wheat, barely, and rice);
Oil Seeds and industrial crops (sesame, sunflower, cotton and tobacco);
Vegetables (tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon, melon, onion, and garlic);
Fruits (grapes, apple, apricot, peach ,pear, and pemegrout) and
Legumes (chickpeas, lentils and green beans).

I am researching a beekeeping project in a region that produces these foods, but I would like some words on pollination from the women and men who know bees best.  Thank you.  ANY and all comments in this regard are extremely useful.

Anonymous:
You will see honey bees working all the below vegetables and fruts when they are in bloom. I can not say how much the bees get from some of the things Like Beans and tomatoes. Have never seen them in any of the cereral corps, don't really consider them to bloom/flower. More like corn and use wind boren pollen.


Vegetables (tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon, melons,Fruits (grapes, apple, apricot, peach ,pear, and pemegrout) and
Legumes (chickpeas, lentils and green beans).

 :D Al

Jerrymac:
I just read an article the other day about cotton, while it is a self pollunating plant the bees do contribute to it. I will see if I can find that link again.

I think sunflowers really need pollunating creatures to get get job done.

I believe this is it.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~martinb/impact_of_honey_bee_pollination_.htm

Finman:

--- Quote from: Anonymous ---Can anyone tell me if honeybees will pollinate the following:

Cereal (Wheat, barely, and rice);
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These are wind pollinated



--- Quote ---Oil Seeds and industrial crops (sesame, sunflower, cotton and tobacco)
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Sesam is manly selfpollinated http://www.seedtamilnadu.com/nsesame.htm

  Cotton crop can be grown without bees. Yet there is plenty of indication that good bee activity will benefit cotton, with increased quantity and quality of crop.

Sunflower needs , at least in the case , when it is meaning to get hybride seeds.

http://www.arc.agric.za/institutes/ppri/main/divisions/beekeeping/pollination/sunflower.htm

Tobacco is selfpollinating http://www.tobaccopedia.info/tobacco_seed/flowering_and_seed_development.html

 

--- Quote ---Vegetables tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon, melon, onion, and garlic);
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Flower of tomato needs shaking ofter that pollen come off. In greenhouses they chake plants or some use bumble bees for pollination.

Onions have plenty of nectar for bees. Same with melons.

Cucumbers some needs pollination and some not. Some cucumbers will be spoiled if it is pollinated (long green in greenhouses). Many lemons need pollination because they have "boy" flowers and "girl" flowers.
 

--- Quote ---Fruits grapes, apple, apricot, peach ,pear, and pemegrout
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Many fruit trees have self breeding protection and they need another variety to give pollen. Some apricot and peach are self pollinating.  With cross pollination they make bigger fruits.


--- Quote ---Legumes (chickpeas, lentils and green beans).
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I think that it depends on species. Trifolium need cross pollination.  It depens been if they need.   I had bees near 6 hectar bean field, but there was any bees.  Been species are so many.

Many plant varietes have developed to produce fruits, cucumbers etc.  without pollination.

You have missed  spices like (Carum carvi) caraway

asleitch:
Sunflowers for sure - very big in France I believe. I've seen bumblebees all over the sunflowers we keep in the garden. I've got some good pictures as well if you need them.

Soft fruit, apples, pears etc are well known for neededing honeybees for effective pollination. Many orchard owners pay for this pollination service and beekeepers move hives from location to location to maximise profits and to keep the bees on plants on which the nectar is available.

Just one comment, not all bees ppollinate all types of crops, some are suited to the Bumblebee only as it's bigger, and vice versa the honey bee as it's smaller. Is it only honeybees you are interested in?

Adam

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