Did you know that bumblebees are the prime pollinators for huckleberries? Not the honey bees!
Huckleberries and bumblebees … I sure did not know that!
According to a Outdoor blog posted on the Spokesman Review …..
Bumblebee may be huckleberry pickers’ best friend
Sure, honeybees get the glory and we get their honey,but wild bees (about 150 different species probably occupy northeastern Washington), including bumble bees, pollinate far more crops, including many of those in our gardens, than the honeybee,” says Chris Loggers, wildlife biologist with the Colville National Forest.
“For example, honeybees rarely pollinate that wonderful fruit that most of us pick each year — huckleberries. It appears that bumblebees might be one of huckleberries’ prime pollinators.”
Lets continue to ‘be nice’ to our friends the bumblebees!
