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For very small gardens, bush apple trees are available and you can also buy a family tree, which has different apple varieties that will pollinate each other.

So when almonds bloom in late winter, it's all hands on deck to get bees to pollinate the massive crop.

They are self-pollinating so you can grow single trees, but, as they blossom before many insects appear, it's wise to hand pollinate them as well.

One of the interested thing has been recorded in post ripening stage of the non-pollinated Nur Aseel that it has deposited the highest amount of Ca and least amount of the Na as compared to remaining pollinate and non- pollinated date fruit cultivars.

So it has been a question about how they attract insects to pollinate their flowers.

Today, millions of bees are needed, every year, to pollinate orchards and fields.

pollinate To transfer pollen from an anther to the stigma of a flower.

They hire beekeepers to bring in bees to pollinate the crops.

These and other bee investigations at the three labs provide new insights into how growers, commercial and hobbyist beekeepers, and backyard gardeners can enhance populations of wild bees that pollinate crop plants.

As researchers scramble for answers to what they are calling "colony collapse disorder," growers are concerned that the bee industry will be unable to meet the increasing demand for bees to pollinate crops like avocados, almonds, and kiwis.

Brent Doane, executive secretary of the U.S.D.A Federal Crop Insurance Corp., said the event would most likely be covered by crop insurance, although it's assumed there will be sufficient supplies of honeybees to adequately pollinate crops, despite the disease outbreak.

Commercial beekeepers rent their hives to farmers, who rely on the bees to pollinate some 100 commercial crops in North America.

Keeley is a retired civil engineer who keeps bees to pollinate his orchards: cherries, apples, peaches, plums and chestnuts.