Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Squash (fruit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Squashes are four species of the genus Cucurbita, also called pumpkins and marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker. Winter squashes (such as butternut, Hubbard, buttercup, acorn, spaghetti squash/vegetable spaghetti and pumpkin) are harvested at the end of summer, generally cured to further harden the skin, and stored in a cool place for eating later. Squash is considered a Berry, with outer wall or rind formed from receptacle tissue fused to the exocarp; the Fleshy interior is composed of mesocarp and endocarp. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squash_(vegetable)   (669 words)

Alternative Pollinators: Native Bees Although bees are recognized as some of the most important pollinators in almost all ecosystems where flowers occur, their precise roles in pollination are not well documented (4). The alkali bee was among the first of the solitary bees to be used for pollination of alfalfa in the western U.S. This native bee occurs naturally in areas west of the Rocky Mountains (16) and nests in moist alkaline soils near natural seeps and springs (15). Squash bees, which are related to carpenter bees, collect pollen and nectar only from the flowers of cucurbits (squash, pumpkin, and gourd). www.attra.org /attra-pub/nativebee.html   (4857 words)

Squash bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name Squash bee is applied to two related genera of bees in the tribe Eucerini; Peponapis and Xenoglossa. The bees themselves are of moderate size, equal to various bumblebees. The two genera are sometimes thought to be sister taxa, but there are enough differences between them to suggest that the similarities may be due to convergent evolution, based on their adaptation to utilize the same host plants. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squash_bee   (253 words)

Pumkin & Squash Squashes are categorized as summer squash or winter squash, depending on when they are harvested (winter squash also commonly refers to those squashes of the maxima species). While squash has been consumed for over 10,000 years, they were first cultivated specifically for their seeds since earlier squashes did not contain much flesh and what they did contain was very bitter and unpalatable. Generally squash is baked or steamed and mashed; winter squash and pumpkins are often made into a form of custard for pie filling, and butternut squash in particular is often made into soup. www.leighcourtfarm.org.uk /page6/page15/page15.html   (713 words)

Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Squash and pumpkins usually grow on vines, but some grow on bushy-type plants, producing separate male and female flowers on the same plant which are pollinated by bees. The main pest is the 'squash vine borer', a white worm that burrows into the stem at the base of the plant, causing the whole plant to die. Squash bees are smaller than the honeybee and fuzzier, and have bands of grey and brown. www.innvista.com /health/foods/vegetables/gourds.htm   (1287 words)

CG Online - Warming Up to Winter Squash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) In Canada, the bee is found mostly in southern Ontario; Kevan thinks the hoary squash bee's territory extends only as far north as Collingwood and Ottawa; it should be present in southern Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, too, but no samples have ever been collected there. The male hoary squash bee is the only one you'd find asleep in the flowers in the afternoon. Be on the lookout for squash vine borers--fat, wrinkled, white caterpillars that tunnel into the squash stem, causing the vine to wilt and die. www.canadiangardening.com /plants/squash2.shtml   (1036 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) One, the southeastern blueberry bee (Habropoda laboriosa), is a specialist on that native plant; the squash bee (Peponapis sp.) is found in close association with cucurbit or vine crops. Although known for a long time that honey bees were important pollinators, this was not strongly brought to public attention until introduction of the Varroa bee mite . For both honey bees and solitary bees, research is desperately needed to determine not only the value of their pollination, but also how to most effectively rear and deploy these pollinating insects. home.earthlink.net /~beeactor/free/papers/Pollination_Input.htm   (2225 words)

Medicine Bee Herbals - Gardening for Pollinators Lilies have ridged petals to guide bees to the nectar-rich center; concentric rings on blanket flowers create a target focused on the nectar; zinnias and butterfly weeds have flat topped clusters of flowers to attract butterflies; delphiniums have a special petal that serves as a landing platform for bees. Bees are the world's workhorse pollinators, with over 40,000 different species worldwide and 4,000 in the U.S. alone. These bees are solitary and nest in burrows in the ground that approximately 10 inches deep and about the diameter of a pencil. www.medicinebeeherbals.com /gardening-pollinators.php   (2111 words)

Guild Design I Beans furnish nitrogenous fertility for themselves, corn, and squash; squash shades soil for the benefit of all three; corn feeds the bean-hugging bacterial nodules and creates a trellis for the beans. The young leaves, flowers, and seed pods of bee plant are edible, and native people boiled and ate them, or made a paste from the plant for later use. Bee plant also accumulates iron, and thus is the source of a deep-hued paint used to create the characteristic fl designs on Anasazi pottery. www.patternliteracy.com /guilddesigni.html   (803 words)

NE Veg Management Guide: Pumpkin, Squash, and Gourds Do not plant squash or pumpkin until daily soil temperatures are at least 60°F. Transplants may be used to ensure uniform or complete stands, increase yield and to increase the likelihood of early harvest. Since bees can carry pollen for a mile or more, isolation of fields from other types of squash or pumpkin is rarely possible in the New England area. Squash should not be stored with ethylene producers such as ripe apples or pears since squash will turn color, become stringy and decay. www.nevegetable.org /index.cfm?objectid=E01CC1F8-8C7F-4CFE-5A8C9EE6CE4E5AAA   (1730 words)

Pumpkin The name "squash" is applied in America to this and other species of the genus Cucurbita. The varieties of pumpkins and squashes are numerous and great variety in size and shape; it is difficult to keep them pure if various kinds are grown together, but the true squashes (C. Henniker, New Hampshire, it is technically a "squash," Cucurbita maxima, and was of the public variety "Atlantic Giant," which is the "giant" variety - culminated from the simple hubbard squash by enthusiast farmers through intermittent effort since the mid 1800's. www.edinformatics.com /culinaryarts/food_encyclopedia/pumpkin.htm   (625 words)

Buckeye Bee Basic Beekeeping Course: Beekeeping Class Bees have a tendency to drift into a hive that is not their own and this is true of hives in a straight row. Bees that you are able to pick-up from a producer will not face the stress that package bees faced when mailed. Generally once she inserts her sting, the bee pulls herself away, leaving the venom pouch and sting in the invader; the worker soon dies because of the abdominal rupture. www.buckeyebee.com /basic.html   (9430 words)

Zucchini, Commercial Vegetable Production Guides, North Willamette Research and Extension Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Summer squash is defined as fruit of the Cucurbitaceae family that are consumed when immature, 100% of the fruit of which is edible either cooked or raw, once picked is not suited for long-term storage, has a soft rind which is easily penetrated, and the seeds of which would not germinate at harvest maturity: e.g. It is recommended that one honey bee hive should be introduced for every 1 to 2 acres during the blooming period since native bee populations may not be adequate, or may not coincide properly with the blooming period. In the Willamette Valley, summer squash and zucchini is harvested for processing from July 7 to September 20. oregonstate.edu /dept/NWREC/zuc.html   (1900 words)

High Country News -- Printable -- January 20, 1997: Natives emerge from the shadows The bee Nabhan holds is a squash bee in the family Xenoglossa, a solitary bee that doesn't produce honey, but has pollinated wild and cultivated squash plants in the Southwest for as long as native peoples in the region can remember. By the time honey bees arrived at the fields, most receptive female squash flowers have already been pollinated by the squash bees, say researchers funded by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, of which Nabhan is the science director. Though natives such as squash bees may beat them to breakfast in the morning, honey bees are extremely efficient at removing pollen and nectar from flowers, says Buchmann. www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=2992   (810 words)

Crop Profiles - Squash, Gourd, Pumpkin Squashes are warm season annuals, preferring 75 to 86 degrees F daytime and 64 degrees F night temperatures. Squash pollen is large, and not easily moved by insects. The native squash bee does the best job of pollination but is usually not available commercially. www.ncsu.edu /sustainable/profiles/botsquas.html   (285 words)

It pays to know (and protect) your pollinators Claire Kremen, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, led a study of the role of native bees in pollination of watermelons, cherry tomatoes, and hybrid sunflowers in the Central Valley of California. Ongoing threats to the European domesticated honey bee, including parasitic mites and hybridization with aggressive African bee strains, have caused a 50 percent decline in U.S. honey bee colonies since 1950 and a 70 percent decline in feral honey bees, according to Kremen. Honey bees don’t normally visit tomato flowers because the flowers have no nectar and honey bees are unable to vibrate the tomato flower to release the pollen. www.newfarm.org /research/2005/mar05/pollinator.shtml   (894 words)

UGA Honey Bee Program - Pollination - References Pollination of strawberry by the stingless bee, Trigona minangkabau, and the honey bee, Apis mellifera: an experimental study of fertilization efficiency, Res. Bumble bees and crop pollination in Ontario, Proc. The pollination efficiency of the squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa) and the honey bee (Apis mellifera) on summer squash (Cucurbita pepo), J. Kansas Entomol. www.ent.uga.edu /bees/Pollination/References.htm   (631 words)

wien research Roger Morse, and a beekeeper in the Albany area, Roberta Glatz, have shown that the native squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, is one of the main species pollinating the pumpkin crop. Since this bee is solitary, and nests in the ground, they are investigating the influence of management practices on bee populations. The honey bee and the squash bee are of similar size and appearance, but the squash bee has a distinctively rapid, irregular flight. www.hort.cornell.edu /department/faculty/wien/res.html   (781 words)

FACTS Pollination -- Forgotten Input Perhaps the family of commercial plants for which honey bee pollination in most important is the curcurbit or vine crops . In addition, honey bees are not the most efficient pollinators in all situations . The southern specialist on the former crop is the Southeastern blueberry bee (Habropoda laboriosa) . apis.ifas.ufl.edu /papers/altpol.htm   (2264 words)

.:Organic Agriculture: Faculty:. Bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidea) activity levels in commercial tomato greenhouses. Pollination of greenhouse tomatoes by bumble bees in Ontario. IPM for diseases and parasites in honey bees. www.organicag.uoguelph.ca /publications/index.html   (6978 words)

UC Vegetable Research & Information Center Squash, cucumber and melons require insects, usually honeybees, to pollinate the flowers. Female squash flowers are much larger than the female flowers on melon and cucumber plants. In melons and cucumbers, male flowers have very short stems and are borne in clusters of three to five, while the females are borne singly on somewhat longer stems. www.vric.ucdavis.edu /faq.htm   (904 words)

Fragments From Floyd: All the Buzz So today, armed with ew imformation, I went back purposefully to note the difference between this bee and the sadly uncommon honey bee, and to distinguish male from female squash bee by appearance, behaviour and location. The female, with her receptive parts uppermost, would kick up her back legs with each attempted mating, signifying in bee language "I've got a sick headache." As soon as one male would leave by the front door, another would sneak in the back. It is quite the redlight district there in the golden interior of a squash he-flower. www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com /fragments/2005/07/all_the_buzz.html   (647 words)

Readers Share Her squash plants have great blooms but no squash. Today, the bee count on my bushes was up pretty good, although not normal yet. But the wild bees are out at the crack of dawn doing their thing. www.queenbeejan.com /readshar.htm   (468 words)

Record Unit 7311: Collection Division 4 - Paul David Hurd Papers, 1938-1982 and undated "A Classification of the Squash and Gourd Bees (Peponapis and Xenoglossa)," by Hurd and Earle Gorton Linsley, 1970. "Experimental Introduction of Squash and Gourd Bees (Peponapis and Xenoglossa) for the Purpose of Improving the Yields of Squashes, Gourds, and Pumpkins," by Hurd, Earle Gorton Linsley, and Abraham Ezra Michelbacher, 1971. "Squash and Gourd Bees of the Genus Xenoglossa," by Hurd and Earle Gorton Linsley, 1967. www.si.edu /archives/archives/findingaids/faru7311cd_4.htm   (578 words)

Cheese, Specialty Food, Gourmet Gift Baskets, Cheese Gifts: igourmet Their honey is made from the sweet clovers favored by bees of the genus "Melilotus." The main use of the abundant and pretty clover is to feed animals and provide nectar for bees. Bees make thick, sweet honey from the watery nectar they collect from flowers. Much to the bees chagrin however, honey is an important part of the diet of several other animals, such as bears and badgers. www.igourmet.com /shoppe/shoppe.asp?cat=2&subcat=Honey   (1321 words)

Squash, Pumpkins & Gourds - HORT410 - Vegetable Crops - Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - ... Squash, Pumpkins and Gourds - HORT410 - Vegetable Crops - Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - Purdue University Squash, Pumpkins and Gourds - HORT410 - Vegetable Crops Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Cucurbita mixta Pang., Cucurbita moschata (Duchesne) Poir., Cucurbita pepo L., Cucurbitaceae, Pumpkin, Squash (PURDUE) www.hort.purdue.edu /rhodcv/hort410/squash/squash.htm   (265 words)

Squash Working Bee - Saturday morning, 20th September 2003 - Deep River Squash Photos - The Deep River Curling and ... While this working bee cleaned the walls with Windex and elbow-grease. There is a specialised squash product for cleaning squash court walls of ball and racquet marks called BIO90 by Playcon. Squash court No 1 still needs to be cleaned lachlan.bluehaze.com.au /drcsc/images/20sep2003/index.html   (299 words)

2005 Work Bee, 9.30am, Saturday 17th September 2005 - The Deep River Curling and Squash Club (DRCSC) in Deep River, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) For this curling and squash season, a work bee is scheduled for Saturday, September 17th 2005 starting at 9.30am and finishing around midday. Free pizza lunch and pop/soft drink will conclude the work bee. Thus, we hope, there should be much less elbow work than last year. lachlan.bluehaze.com.au /drcsc/workbee.html   (242 words)

Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee Wrapping up things in the kitchen and at The Bee I just realizedI should have picked a dessert for my final course. Don't look a gift squash in the mouth www.modbee.com /life/taste   (301 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.