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Mason bee supplies, including actual sleeping mason bees, can be purchased from most garden centers. February is the ideal time to set them out. As for varietal selections, things can get complicated.
When bees disappeared from central China years ago, Chinese apple farmers had to pollinate by hand. Embarrassing — people doing bees' work, but then came the big discovery –- a surprise that ...
It’s normal for fruit trees to drop some fruit early in the summer to stay healthy and balanced. Pollination problems, pests, ...
ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A local apple orchard is getting a big hand from a little friend. There’s a buzz in the air at Indian Ladder Farms in Altamont. “Every year the Rulison Family … ...
Even the quantity of calcium in an apple, for example, and its shelf life will decrease when pollination is inadequate. Properly pollinated apples have 7-10 seeds. Bad weather can also affect ...
A New York orchard recently called in local drone startup Dropcopter and its pollen-spreading UAVs to perform the world’s first apple orchard pollination by drone. Tools like this could help ...