[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Fwd: Why China’s Asian honeybees are losing out to their Western counterparts | South China Morning Post [1 Attachment]

[Kit Prendergast]

I find that very depressing...what hope is there for the future if children
are fed misinformation !

On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 at 7:17 am, Peter Bernhardt bernhap2 at slu.edu
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> Anyone interested in commenting on this article from a popular, Chinese,
> newspaper?  I've now eaten the honey of both Apis mellifera and A. cerana
> and far prefer the flavor in a cerana honey so am dubious about comparative
> "sweetness."  The "information" on cerana workers and queens is interesting
> provided it's true.  In fact, the traditional culture of A. cerana has been
> largely replaced by A. mellifera in most areas of China with parts of
> Yunnan still holding out for cerana.
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> http://www.amjbot.org/content/101/10/1700.abstract
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> Also, just had a very unpleasant experience after finishing some garden
> work and turning on PBS.  The writers of a children's series called "Nature
> Cat" are telling children that pollination occurs when a bee "mixes" pollen
> of flowers from two different trees.  The word, pistil, is never used.
> Uhh, do you think NAPPC representatives should chat with the producers of
> PBS shows for kids or should we not bother as pubic broadcasting is doomed
> by the current administration?
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> Peter
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