From llondon@bellsouth.net Wed Jun 3 00:10:01 1998 Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:00:03 GMT From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Pollination "Bible" Now Online On 25 May 1998 00:27:32 GMT, in alt.agriculture.fruit pollinator@aol.com (Pollinator) wrote: > > Didja Know? -One bee hive is equivalent to about 300 man days for the >pollination of cucumber fields. > > This gem and a wealth of other information on pollination is available in >McGregor's "Pollination Bible." Dr. McGregor's Insect Pollination of Cultivated >Crop Plants is a tremendous reference work published by the USDA in 1976, and >long out of print. > > It has crop by crop summaries of all the pollination research to date. You >can find major crops such as apples, oranges, watermelons and cucumbers, as >well as more exotic ones like nutmeg, cherimoya, chestnuts, and lezpedeza. > > "Bee Culture" magazine has provided the great service of making this work >available on the internet (let's hear a round of applause for Editor Kim >Flottom!). > > You can spend many an hour browsing to learn about pollination, and when a >question comes up, you can refer back to it. > > Just remember that when the book was published, there were high populations >of feral honeybees, which are mostly gone now. So the recommendations need to >be updated, and probably should be much greater in hives per acre. > > I used to think there would always be enough wild bees to supply gardeners >and small acreage farmers. Today, I see lots of evidence of pollination failure >in many gardens. So check out this work and learn about pollination. > > I had hoped to complete this project myself, but balky OCR software and >lack of time has prevented me from it. I expect to link to it on our page, but >this event is too good to just do that quietly. I commend Editor Flottum. > > Check it out at: >http://airoot.com/beeculture/book/index.html > > >Pollinator@aol.com Dave Green Hemingway, SC USA >The Pollination Scene: http://users.aol.com/pollinator/polpage1.html > >Jan's Sweetness and Light Shop (Varietal Honeys and Beeswax Candles) >http://users.aol.com/SweetnessL/sweetlit.htm >Pollinator@aol.com Dave Green Hemingway, SC USA >The Pollination Scene: http://users.aol.com/pollinator/polpage1.html > >Jan's Sweetness and Light Shop (Varietal Honeys and Beeswax Candles) >http://users.aol.com/SweetnessL/sweetlit.htm