North Carolina Violations Killing Pollinators (fwd)
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Sat, 12 Oct 1996 10:19:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Hodges
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North Carolina Violations Killing Pollinators (fwd)  Date: Fri,
11 Oct 1996 23:40:42 -0400 From: Pollinator@aol.com To:
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Killing Pollinators  Subj:   North Carolina Violations Killing
Pollinators  Thusday Morning   10-10-96       Next spring people
will be wondering, "Where are the bees?"      Some of the
watermelon blossoms will just dry up and fall off, without
forming fruit. Others will form but will be deformed and small.
People will taste the awful fruit and exclaim "The grower used
too much soda!"      But white seeds will tell the true story.
One or two bee visits may have set a fruit, but there were not
enough visits to pollin