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They are using bumbles to innoculate against grey rot on strawberries...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/01/farmers-turn-to-bumblebees-to-save-strawberry-crops/

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interesting. certainly better than spraying fungicide. that the fungus occurs naturally in the soil suggests that fungicide and other dubious management caused the problem to begin with.

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bumble bee live in holes in the ground, so they normally transfer the inoculant to the strawberry plant.
I wonder if we have been doing anything to lower the amount of bumble bee or holes in the ground or inoculant, to have gotten us to the point where we are now.

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S Bengi wrote:I wonder if we have been doing anything to lower the amount of bumble bee or holes in the ground or inoculant, to have gotten us to the point where we are now.



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