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| | Bee Tubes in Fruit pollination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Up in the north of Western Australia, where we use these tubes in melons and curcubit crops, which are grown in big, long rows; the longer the row and the longer the distance from the bees, the less yield you get, because the percentage of foragers decreases over distance. |
 | | After about 500 metres the bees on this crop are down to about less than 10%. |
 | | With many of these curcubit crops, eg rockmelons, water melons, pumpkin, because they have so many seeds, the flowers need a lot of pollen. |
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