Hi Kelly, I'm just referring to anything that transports pollen from one flower to another in a manner that results in pollination of the recipient flower, so I use "vector" in the broadest sense. It had not occurred to me before that there might be a methodology involved in establishing that a particular bug was a true natural pollinator of a given plant species. Jim Shields At 09:06 AM 5/11/2008 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, Jim. I don't have an answer. I would ask are meaning "pollinator" >and not "pollination vector", unless you are talking about disease carriers? > >Mr. Kelly M. Irvin >10850 Hodge Ln >Gravette, AR 72736 >USA > >479-787-9958 >USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 6a/b > >http://www.irvincentral.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA