Ah, you did it! Thank you for a very interesting read. I might be a mutualist. I reluctantly admit to needing the services of many people, but for selfish reasons entirely. Did you know elephants are also pollinators? Humming birds and elephants. What magic.
Ah, dangit! I put down your name as an L not a Q, sorry! I tried to find what I could on pollinators, but then I got a bit too deep into the science and got bogged down. I was looking at some interesting things, such as color flowers and designs, and something called nectar trails. Really fascinating stuff!
I'll look into the elephant stuff and see what I can find. It all really is fascinating to consider. There's a lot of differences between animals and how they engage in pollination.
do you know about human pollinators for date farms? Since I consume dates regularly I was curious about them and some videos for Southern California farms talked about how in the wild (i.e. middle east) the date palms would rely mostly on wind for pollination, if I recall correctly, but on the date farms, using humans to pollinate them yields fruit orders of magnitude greater. So that also makes me wonder about greenhouses, indoor farming, hydroponics. I saw a documentary about such agriculture in Russia to raise plants that normally can't grow there and they at the time used human pollinators but I've also read about efforts to automate it.
Sorry, I don't know much about that. I had to look up a lot of the information on pollinators. I looked more closely at figs because I have a fig tree, and I heard about the "you eat wasps every time you eat figs", and so that made me curious 🤷♂️.
It's interesting to think of humans. I suppose with humans you're more capable of actual pollination rather than leaving it to chance? And you're likely also engaging in some form of artificial selection where you can choose pollen from the best dates to use.
I do not believe in evolution. The species are separate. Darwin has been proven wrong by his own words in Origin of Species. People won't give it up because they don't want to believe in a Creator. The creator is God. There was no big bang. You and I did not crawl out of the slime and then become monkeys and eventually humans. Flowers, bees etc were created. They did not evolve.
To celebrate Pollinator Week in my part of the world, the local department of primary industries are attempting to poison all the european honeybees in the district.
(due to some retard bringing in hives infected with varroa destructor a few months ago)
It'll be interesting to see if the native pollinators come back to fill the void (assuming the DPI are successful, which is an open question...)
Ah, you did it! Thank you for a very interesting read. I might be a mutualist. I reluctantly admit to needing the services of many people, but for selfish reasons entirely. Did you know elephants are also pollinators? Humming birds and elephants. What magic.
Ah, dangit! I put down your name as an L not a Q, sorry! I tried to find what I could on pollinators, but then I got a bit too deep into the science and got bogged down. I was looking at some interesting things, such as color flowers and designs, and something called nectar trails. Really fascinating stuff!
I'll look into the elephant stuff and see what I can find. It all really is fascinating to consider. There's a lot of differences between animals and how they engage in pollination.
That you remembered it was S something is pretty amazing! Thanks for an very interesting read!
do you know about human pollinators for date farms? Since I consume dates regularly I was curious about them and some videos for Southern California farms talked about how in the wild (i.e. middle east) the date palms would rely mostly on wind for pollination, if I recall correctly, but on the date farms, using humans to pollinate them yields fruit orders of magnitude greater. So that also makes me wonder about greenhouses, indoor farming, hydroponics. I saw a documentary about such agriculture in Russia to raise plants that normally can't grow there and they at the time used human pollinators but I've also read about efforts to automate it.
Sorry, I don't know much about that. I had to look up a lot of the information on pollinators. I looked more closely at figs because I have a fig tree, and I heard about the "you eat wasps every time you eat figs", and so that made me curious 🤷♂️.
It's interesting to think of humans. I suppose with humans you're more capable of actual pollination rather than leaving it to chance? And you're likely also engaging in some form of artificial selection where you can choose pollen from the best dates to use.
I do not believe in evolution. The species are separate. Darwin has been proven wrong by his own words in Origin of Species. People won't give it up because they don't want to believe in a Creator. The creator is God. There was no big bang. You and I did not crawl out of the slime and then become monkeys and eventually humans. Flowers, bees etc were created. They did not evolve.
To celebrate Pollinator Week in my part of the world, the local department of primary industries are attempting to poison all the european honeybees in the district.
(due to some retard bringing in hives infected with varroa destructor a few months ago)
It'll be interesting to see if the native pollinators come back to fill the void (assuming the DPI are successful, which is an open question...)
Sorry to hear that.