Show spraying trees in bloom injurious to honey bees when spraying fruit trees care should be taken to do the work at a time when there la Is the least danger of polso poisoning ning the honey bees which visit the blossoms and which are very necessary tor for the pollination of the lower flowers says the united states department part ment of agriculture spraying Bp raring fruit trees white while in full bloom with arseni cals la Is particularly injurious to bee bees according to tests whick have been completed recently by the bureau of entomology of course the be beekeeper does not want hia his bees poisoned ays says the department because as a result bis his honey crop la to reduced the subject should be of even more inter eat est however to fruit growers because with abo he loes loss of the honey bees they ios lose the most effective means of pollination in their orchards in this respect the er the fruit grower and in fact t act everyone Is bene fitted by honeybees boney ho the effect of arsenical sprays on the mortality of honeybees has long been debated but only a few yi ter nalle investigations have been te Is the dispute Ito in af capo hi ad 0 evarte dear me at t ibe the aurta 00 cwg da do bated 11 the wr 1 aue thay eky or in to ebo athly de do enable the dol ArtinI to t flake tome some rec ommen attoul spraying apple ww during tuu full bloom bloon it Is oot dot the moth can bo be ai as wll wall controlled by spraying err ayin when 90 pen cent of the th auls have alien fallen and bebau spraying pray ln when the tree trees are re in full ull bloom tg to to insect pollinators |