China is a big apple producer, and its output accounts for 65% of the world’s total apple output.

Apple has its own genus (Malus), which belongs to the same genus as Begonia. Apple flowers are five to seven together, but the middle one is called king blossom. Generally this flower is enough to be pollinated, so that the fruit on the tree will not become too much and become small. Using chemicals to sparse fruit is actually equivalent to 10% flowering. The price of bees is the lowest among apples, about 55-65 dollars. Only 1/4 of the big almonds! This also indirectly indicates that Apple’s profits are relatively low. The king flower of the apple blooms 2-3 days earlier than the surrounding flowers.

Bees pick apple flowers.

The following is actually a cherry flower, and it is also pollinated by bumblebee. It is estimated that the apples next to them will also be pollinated by them.

Today I discovered that the first year (2005.5.22) also went to the same experimental station to see how they pollinated apples and cherries.

In addition to the Horned Bees mentioned yesterday, Osmia lignaria is also used in the United States to pollinate cherries and apples. However, I seem to be taking photos in 2005, so I won’t give photos. It is estimated that blue wall bees are used more in the west.

This bee is beautiful and has two covers.

Cover of American Bee Magazine April 2007.

Cover of the book “Bee Biology and Beekeeping” (I get $ 250).

To sum it up, here is Michigan’s bee-dependent agricultural product prices (2015 data). I often say that Michigan’s agricultural products rely mainly on ABC, A is apple, B is blueberry, and C is cherry. These three are more than one and a half billion dollars (more than 700 million). Production value of bee dependant = total output value × bee dependence index. For example, Apple’s 398,934 is a total output value of 443,260 times 0.9. Because the phone is smaller than the screen, I have omitted the total one.

Value of Michigan’s crops dependent on bee pollination