I'm trying to grow a large...
I’m trying to grow a large melon crop and know I need honeybees for pollination, but how many?
Answer
A rule of thumb is one bee for every 100 flowers in the field, or one colony of bees per acre of melons. A flower needs about eight visits from a bee.
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