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Or you can just perform manual pollination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-pollination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-pollination . This has actually be
by zitterbewegung 9y ago
Or you can just perform manual pollination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-pollination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-pollination .
This has actually been done in China due to their bee population declining.
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-Decline-of-bees-forces-China-s-apple-farmers-to-pollinate-by-hand https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-De...
- jonah 9y ago"This is clearly just possible for this high-value crop, but there are not enough humans in the world to pollinate all of our crops by hand." We have so many crops that rely on bees. There is no way we'd ever be able to pollenate all our crops by hand and it would become incredibly expensive if we tried.
- tptacek 9y agoFrom where do we get the possibility of losing our bee livestock population? Colony collapse at its height was a double digit percentage increase in overwintering losses. Beekeepers react by splitting hives and buying new queens.