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Article: Busy beneficial bees help gardens to grow
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2001
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Midwest Gardening
Busy beneficial bees help gardens to grow
By JAN RIGGENBACH
Midwest Features
Sunday, July 15, 2001
Bees are like snakes: They sometimes get a bad rap when they're
actually one of a gardener's best friends.
Without the transfer of pollen from blossom to blossom, there
would be no apples or blueberries. Cucumber, melon, pumpkin and
squash plants would fail to produce. Strawberries and raspberries
wouldn't develop properly or taste as sweet. Many kinds of flowers
wouldn't set viable seeds, depriving the garden of nature's informal
self-seeding. There would be no holly berries and little fruit on
ornamental crabapple trees.
Although bees aren't the only pollinators, they do the ...