Author Topic: Here's some good news, LM  (Read 789 times)

rcjordan

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Here's some good news, LM
« on: August 02, 2017, 10:59:18 PM »

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Re: Here's some good news, LM
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2017, 11:04:06 PM »
When sugar cane aphids evolved in the last couple of years to also eat grain sorghum, I know a lot of farmers were concerned about using insecticides that wouldn't harm honey bees.  The bee friendly one is more expensive, but most of the farmers I know went out of their way to use it.


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Re: Here's some good news, LM
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2017, 11:40:01 PM »
I was reading that somewhere, think it might be in rural China, the bee population crashed so the humans are going around with brushes to manually pollinate the flowers.