Re: bees and box store plants

**C* <i*@cobrahead.com>**

It is impossible for commercial agriculture to rely on native pollinators,
as large scale farming has destroyed the habitat necessary for them.  Thus
big farms have to rely on trucked in hives to do the necessary
pollination.  The collapse of the commercial bee colonies is a crisis, but
the home gardener and small scale grower, at least for the present, does
not have to worry about this, as native bees and numerous other pollinators
are easily encouraged to show up through the growing of pollinator
attracting plants.  My garden is full of wasps, bees,and other pollinating
insects.  I let many plants that these insects like go to flower and
pollination is never an issue.

Noel Valdes
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Susan McCoy <susan@gardenmediagroup.com>
wrote:

> And why they aren't using more native bees. I know I'm going out on a limb
> here, but have y'all seen Crown Bees' Indigogo campaign to increase native
> bees?
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/you-can-help-save-the-bees/x/10211002
> We could use some help to spread the word.
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