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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more @lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Explaining the importance of bees to an American

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Explaining the importance of bees to an American

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  • ewpert@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Now imagine a burger

  • folaht@lemmy.ml
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    Silly question, but how are cows and potatoes pollinated by bees?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      bees pollinate potatoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees

      • folaht@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        Thank you.
        I learn something new every day.

      • EllenKelly [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Potatoes are not the part of the plant that reproduces through pollination, seed potatoes are grown from other potatoes, the fruits are poisonous, potatoes are nightshades. I may be mistaken, maybe pollination helps? I know potatoes arent ready for harvest until after flowering

        I think maybe you could argue cows are largely fed pollinated crops when raised in a feedlot

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    Wheat?

    • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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      Wheat is air pollinated, like corn and most grains. You dont need pollinators for it.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      I doubt that they use wheat or any other natural product for the bread in the US.

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        … Listen we have some wheat in our bread, I’m sure!

        I hate it here.

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          Also, apparently wheat is mostly self-pollinating. Learned something new today.

          • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Yes, but lime and sawdust is cheaper. $$$

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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        Yeah but surely the corn syrup also needs bees

        • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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          You’re on ml, learn some farming to be better acquainted with your fellow workers. Almost all grains are wind pollinated, including corn and wheat. It’s why throughout history grains tend to end up as staple crops despite the complicated methods humans need to use to get them edible to us ‐ they still grow even in times of environmental disaster and grow in much, much larger amounts than insect assisted pollinated crops.

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          Corn is a grass too, wind pollinator

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      Wheat is self/wind pollinating. Most grasses are.

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