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How mushrooms can save the bees
« on: December 27, 2014, 07:45:30 am »
Very interesting and promising topic.

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Re: How mushrooms can save the bees
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2014, 08:17:40 am »
 Very interest to know mushrooms plays the part it dose not only in the bee world but the rest of it .

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Re: How mushrooms can save the bees
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2015, 08:09:31 pm »
Stamets has long been a favorite speaker and author of mine.   Mycology is just as interesting as beekeeping.

Look up his research in bioremediation of industrial contamination (even radioactivity)! 

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Re: How mushrooms can save the bees
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2015, 12:14:02 pm »
Fascinating.....all those mushroom that grow in our yard are now verboten to the lawnmower.

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Re: How mushrooms can save the bees
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2015, 02:38:47 pm »
This was a great watch.  It's too bad that the majority of people that SHOULD see this (and similarly informative information) never will.

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Re: How mushrooms can save the bees
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2015, 10:51:42 pm »
This was a great watch.  It's too bad that the majority of people that SHOULD see this (and similarly informative information) never will.

Don't worry about mowing them over.  The spores survive the process so a mower helps spread mushrooms. 

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Re: How mushrooms can save the bees
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2015, 12:20:26 am »
We've been mowing this one freaky mushroom for three years....it never spreads but it comes up every year.   The spot where it comes up is where an old stump used to be till we had it removed.