About pollinators
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• Honeybees - view pdf file or html
• Bumble bees - view pdf file or html
• Horn-faced bees (Osmia cornifrons) -
  • Alternative pollinator - pdf file
    
• Putting horn-faced bees into your orchard - pdf file
• The skinny on horn-faced bees in 2007 - pdf file.

• Working with beekeepers when using pesticides - pdf file or html
• Insecticides and horn-face bees - pdf file

• Find a Michigan beekeeper
• Pollination tips for tree fruit
• Using bees for pollination of fruit crops
• Why fruit trees fail to bear
• Pollination and orchard management systems
• Guide for apple bloom order - Source from Hilltop Nursery's catalog.

Conserving and encouraging bees
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The following resources link to a web site about establishing and managing native plant habitats in fields, orchards and conservation buffers to increase biological pest insect control and pollination services.

• Pollination and bees
• Conserving Native Bees on Farmland. Colorful, 4-page fact sheet. Includes native bee biology with practical advice for increasing native bee abundance. Print/view a pdf file of this bulletin, or call the MSU Extension Bulletin office (517-353-6740) to order copies. The bulletin inventory number is E-2985. A single copy costs $1.50.
• Teaching resources