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Old 10-04-2011, 07:09 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default What pollinates apples, besides bees?

In article ,
"Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" wrote:

In article
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Billy wrote:

In article ,
"Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" wrote:

In article ,
"Steve Peek" wrote:

Honeybees were first brought here by the pilgrams, by T. Jefferson's
time
there were thousands of escaped "wild" colonies.

Which in fact means they weren't "native". Perhaps you mean invasive?


Try "feral".


Whatever you call them, you can't call them "native"


What kind of brain damage am I dealing with here? If they were
domesticated, and escaped into the wild, they are ipso facto feral,
indigenous (native) or not.




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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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