On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:33:43 +0100,
Charlie Pridham wrote:

Have you an idea, what could attract more polin[is]ating insects ? I
already try sugared water but cannot claim that anybody were
interested in it.

Anything yellow normally works so either grow some annual yellow flowered
plants or use the bright yellow stuff they use for sticky traps but
obviously without the sticky!

I see, that the yellow tomato-flowers attract the bumble bees. Here in
Normandy, yellow is the predominant color of flowers and I even go so
far as to say that nature exaggerates it a bit. So I rather opt for
something blue (Borage) and some red blossoming species.

In the vicinity of the greenhouse and about everywhere else, too, a lot
of Haracleum serves as asset of last resort for many flying insects, but
for the time does not attract many bumble bees, bees or butterflies.

I believe that, if I want to attract _pollinating_ (okay, I looked that
verb up in a dictionary) insects with flowers, I must plant them
*inside* the greenhouse. The idea to use some “artificial” decoy is
interesting as it probably saves space and does not mean a lot of
extra-work.

Thank you, so far.

Michael
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