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To: Jamestown1630

I have ants pollinating my peaches and blueberries.

Also carpenter bees and miner bees. Wasps and small flower bees are abundant later.

If honeybees grow to a natural size, either wild or on natural size comb, they do better at grooming and removing mites. Most commercial frame comb is a little larger than natural. Or so I have read.


47 posted on 05/05/2020 3:10:42 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood

Peonies are one of my favorite flowers. They’ve always got ants crawling all over them ;-)

I haven’t raised bees, and didn’t know this stuff; but found this (?)

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesnaturalcell.htm


51 posted on 05/05/2020 3:41:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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