{"id":11818,"date":"2021-11-22T01:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/bees-and-blueberry-forests-of-lac-st-jean\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T01:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:06:04","slug":"bees-and-blueberry-forests-of-lac-st-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/bees-and-blueberry-forests-of-lac-st-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees and blueberry forests of Lac St-Jean"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11816\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11816 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/abeilles-sauvage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bees pollinate wild blueberry flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wild blueberry flower carries both male and female organs but is self-sterile. It must therefore be fertilized with pollen from another blueberry flower to produce a fruit. The blueberry fields of Lac-Saint-Jean occupy an area almost equivalent to that of the island of Montreal. \u00ab\u00a0Native\u00a0\u00bb bees and other insects come without invitation, but their numbers are clearly insufficient to pollinate them in their entirety. Producers in the region order and install more than 30,000 hives each spring. Honeybees are at the origin of 80% of the pollination of blueberry fields in the region, estimates Mr. Jean-Eudes Senneville, President of Bleuets Sauvages de St-F\u00e9licien. Without their work, we wouldn&rsquo;t bite into apples, strawberries, raspberries, almonds, onions, or eggplants. More than fifty fruits and vegetables, in fact. A healthy hive is home to between 30,000 and 60,000 bees. During the three weeks of flowering, from late May to mid-June, between one and two billion bees will forage for the white blueberry flowers of Lac St-Jean and produce blueberry honey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Value of fruits and vegetables pollinated by bees<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quebec: <\/strong>$200 million<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada: <\/strong>$2 billion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Sources: F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des apiculteurs du Qu\u00e9bec and Honey Council of Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the three weeks of flowering, from late May to mid-June, between one and two billion bees will forage for the white blueberry flowers of Lac St-Jean and produce blueberry honey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[830],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phytonutrient-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}