Crocuses and Bees
Barbara McMullen (Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:49:33 PST)

Hi, Travis

I live in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada. In Febuary or March, the crocuses
will come out, depending on the weather. We sometimes have days that are in
the high teens Celsius and very occasionally, around 20 or 21 Celsius
(roughly 60 to 72 F). On these days, my crocuses will be covered in
solitary pollen bees that live in my garden (I don't till the garden so as
not to disturb them). Sometimes, every blossom will have a bee in it. This
does not happen every year - only when we have a few days of
uncharacteristically warm weather. In those years, my crocuses will grow
seed. I let the seed sow itself and it has produced new crocuses from seed
without me having to do anything! To put this in perspective: the crocuses
come out sooner in my garden than the galanthuses in my neighbor's garden.
Unfortunately, I haven't noticed if the neighbor's galanthuses get
pollinated by bees.

Is this info. helpful?

Barbara McMullen

-----Original Message-----
From: T O
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 10:06 AM
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Galanthus and bees

Thank you all for your insightful responses. This information is highly
useful to me.

I will be asking about different species as the year progresses as I am
studying plant pollinator interactions.

Thank you!

-Travis Owen
Rogue River, OR
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