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mskitty38583 · 11-18-2007, 07:42 PM

there is a place in china where they have used to much pesticides, killed off all the polinators( even flies) and they hand polinate the pears that are native to that part of china.( its somewhere up in the mountains) the pears are the crop that brings money to that small town. i think it was on the nova (PBS) about the dissapearing honey bees. it takes a group of 15 people, i think it was, to hand polinate 30 trees a day. they also said that they didnt know what they were gonna do, because this younger generation has move closer to the cities to work, and their not sure how the hand polination was gonna get done. most of the population is in their middle 60's and most of the trees on on steep cliff sides. so it might be possible for them to hand polinate the nannas.....just thought id add my two cents in.

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