TUCSON Problem: Where are the bees?
Felix E. Tilley
Is it my imagination, or did the Tucson bee population just go *DEAD*.
I have heard rumors that the Tucson area has been infested with a mite
that kills the bees. Any info on this would be appreciated. I am relying
on native desert bees (not the domesticated European honey bees) for
pollination.
Felix
And please email responses to:
Felix E. Tilley Jr.
Hey IXer,
Or inert IXer, You are kind of cute. But you did not answer my question.
And since the news headers indicate you are from the PHX area, I cannot
take your answer seriously.
I still need to know what happened to the desert bees in the Tucson area.
Felix Tilley
Henry E. Blake (hbl...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Dude! Are we being picky here, or what? Do you, like, go out and post little
: signs that warn away the domesticated European honey bees? Do you hire killer
: bees to whack the Euro-bee scofflaws? Or do you stand out there like a
: traffic cop and direct the bee traffic personally?
: Can't the Euro-bees pollinate just as well as the native desert ones? Isn't
: this discrimination? Won't the Euro-bees sue? Or do native desert bees have
: bigger pollinators? If so, aren't you discriminating against the handicapped?
: And, personally, I think that's a little kinky for you to rely on bees for
: pollination. Can't you get a girlfriend and do it the normal way?
: Hank Blake
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Eric Anderson
Felix E. Tilley Jr. wrote:
>
> Hey IXer,
>
> Or inert IXer, You are kind of cute. But you did not answer my question.
> And since the news headers indicate you are from the PHX area, I cannot
> take your answer seriously.
He didn't answer your question anyway, just asked more--few of which were serious
though quite amusing.
> I still need to know what happened to the desert bees in the Tucson area.
Okay, I'm from Tucson. Is there something about the plants you are trying to
pollinate that non-native bees just can't handle? Can you do the pollinating by
hand, ala Q-tips? (My friend the garden-maniac does this all the time.)
Eric