I've only seen one blue banded bee in my aquaponics system, and that's the same one I've only also seen in my life*, so I thought I'd do a bit of dodgy science.
I've arbitrarily divided my system into electric bee buzz pollinated , and not. The right hand side will be buzzed, the left hand side, not buzzed.
"e l e c t r i c t o o t h b r u s h"
My trial involves resting the end of the electric bee buzz pollinator on the branch near the flowers and activating the device for a few seconds.
Science can be complicated.
I'll only buzz the right hand side of my tomato plants and see if there is any increase in the fruit setting rate. I'll be a bit vague about it, because if the difference isn't obvious, it's not really worth doing, so I think I'll judge it by counting the number of flowers that fail to be pollinated as compared to the number that succeed.
I'll start the count in say10 days and run it for another ten where I count. That way I wont be counting existing flowers.
120 Things in 20 years, Where else would you find equipment as complicated as an entomologist's buzz pollination electric bee?
*I've read that a few times and I'm pretty sure it means something
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