->DD>TA>In the case of apple trees one week before blossoming and once a
  ->DD>  >week for at least three weeks (or til all blossoms have matured
TA->DD>You NEVER, NEVER spray fruit trees while the blossoms are anywhere in
  ->DD>sight...you can kill off the bees this way.  Any package that I have
  ->DD>purchased over the years, says to spray every two weeks until the
  ->DD>blossoms appear, and every two weeks from after the blossoms have
  ->DD>fallen until a week before the fruit is picked.  This is what we do 
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  ->DD>the results are good.
TA->I recognize your sense of priorities Doris, but I value my apples
  ->more then a few bees. Fortunately we have more then sufficiency of
  ->bees in the rest of my garden to balance out the odds; and I spray
  ->after sundown to avoid damaging bees and other benificial bugs.
TA->(BTW I hope you don't dictate "NEVER, NEVER" to all the other men in
  ->your life Doris; honey works much better you know 8-).
I don't mean to speak for Doris... but I don't think she referring to
saving a few bees when she gives that advise. She's refering to
obtaining fruit from a tree at all. I'm no tree expert but I don't think
there would be any fruit unless the bees carried the pollin from male to
female parts of the flower.
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