On Mar 27, 5:50 pm, "Alvin E. Toda" <a...@lava.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Maren at google wrote:
>> Not sure this is embarrassing at all. You may find it
>> very embarrassing when there is no tree
>> fruit/nut/etc. to be had anymore that isn't imported.
>
> I guess this is a serious problem. But just how do you
> "lure" back dead bees.
Well I guess you'll have to re-introduce bees then ...
The serious problem is to start with a bee eradication
without considering the consequences in the first place.
>> I found the bees in our yard pollinating our coffee.
>> How much are you willing to pay for coffee? The price
>> for formerly cheap coffee has already doubled in the
>> past year or two. With the price of oil going the way
>> it's going we have to think (and buy) local a lot
>> more than most people have been doing.
>
>> As I said before, I don't think eradicating bees is a
>> long term solution.
>
> Certainly not in the mainland. But in places like
> Oahu and New Zealand, it can work. IIRC New Zealand is
> described as about 50X bigger than Oahu. But they
> managed to eliminate quite a large number of bees
> there. OTOH, there was a report recently in the
> mainland of a fungus that works well in the late fall
> and early spring-- when brood activity is lowest.\
You don't get what I'm trying to say, do you?
Of course you can kill all the bees, probably in the
mainland too. But that is NOT A SOLUTION.
Unless you prefer to eat only wind-pollinated
fruit, etc.
> Put perhaps if the coffee can be genetically modified
> with corn, then like corn it can be polinated by the
> wind. :) Seriously, though IIRC coffee isn't in need of
> bees? Don't recall how the coffee seed is created.
Well, I saw honey bees around our one of our coffee
trees. Beans probably knows more about that than me.
Of course, macadamia nuts need bees, but then, those
are now brought in from elsewhere too.
Think about the rising prices of oil in this context too.
Maren
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