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To: rightly_dividing
A while ago, I looked out at garden, can see it from my chair, and a flying insect was going from flower to flower on my orange tree. I think it was a wasp, not a bee and I've seen some wasps out there. Are wasps considered a source of moving pollen from flower to flower? This is not a dumb question for me to ask because I don't know the answer to the question.

Having never grown any plant at all until last year (and screwing up most of that), there are many facts I still don't know that are common knowledge to people like you and the others on the gardening threads.

270 posted on 04/01/2014 3:07:46 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Marcella

Pollination[edit]
While the vast majority of wasps play no role in pollination, a few species can effectively transport pollen and therefore contribute for the pollination of several plant species, being potential or even efficient pollinators;[4] in a few cases such as figs pollinated by fig wasps, they are the only pollinators, and thus they are crucial to the survival of their host plants.

Source: Wikipedia


271 posted on 04/01/2014 3:15:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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