CBS Sunday Morning today reported on the dying bee phenomenon. Without bees, they said, the crops, including apples and pumpkins, can't be pollinated. Yet the report said bees are not native to America; the white man brought them over. Native Americans called bees "white man's flies".
Now pumpkins are native to America; they were here before the whites. Therefore, how did the pumpkin blossoms, and the berries, and other vegetation native to this land get polinated before the bees came? Butterflies? Flies? Crickets? Grasshoppers? Hummingbirds?
Also, if the bees are gone, couldn't we get the butterflies, hummingbirds, etc., to pollinate our crops?
2007-06-24
14:29:47
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