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| Statement no. | Question: What do you think bees are doing while visiting crop flowers? | Freq. (%) of the statements among interviewed people |
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1
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Bees come and urinate on flowers of my crops; that urine makes fruits/seeds to come, a blessing from God carried out by bees
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4.6
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2
| Bees come to facilitate marriage of my crops | 0.8 |
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3
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Bees and other pollinators facilitate the marriage of flowers
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2.3
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| 4 | Bees are just visiting my crops to get nectar only | 1.5 |
| 5 |
Bees bring wild pollen (“Ngwaso”), drop them onto flowers to enable flower to open and give fruits/seeds
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3.8
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| 6 |
Bees come to drink water and collect other foods I do not know
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11.5
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| 7 |
Bees come to my crops to do the natural job of fertilizing my crops as God created them for that job
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5.4
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| 8 |
Bees come, bust, and later fertilize the flowers of my crops
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3.1
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| 9 | Bees comes to take pollen/nectar from crops to their hives because they are pests (thieves), and of what they take, my crop miss it | 0.8 |
| 10 | Bees fall on flower of my crops, eating from there and later I get fruits/seeds | 1.68 |
| 11 | Bees fertilize my crops by transporting pollen between male and female flowers | 3.1 |
| 12 | Bees fertilize my crops, but wind can also fertilize my crops if bees do not come, so I am not bothered | 5.4 |
| 13 | Bees get nectar from my crops, they help us to get better yield and help themselves | 2.3 |
| 14 | Bees just come to drink juice from my crops but they do nothing good or bad on my crops | 2.3 |
| 15 | Bees just take pollen (“ebivu”) from flowers, go away, and disseminate these pollen on other plants in forests | 8.5 |
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16
| Bees must visit flowers of my crops to get good yield (seeds/fruits): rules of Nature and God | 0.8 |
| 17 | Bees pollinate on my crop for good growth and good seeds/fruit | 1.5 |
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18
| Bees provide a two-way benefit (collect nectar for their hives and bring pollen to my crops) | 0.8 |
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19
| I do not know (I cannot tell) | 1.5 |
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20
| I do not know but was told in a workshop that bees have to pollinate my crops for good yield | 1.5 |
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21
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I see bees visiting flowers of my crops but I do not know what they are after on my crops
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2.3
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22
| I still do not know/understand what bees bring to my flowers to enable me to get better fruits/seeds | 0.8 |
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If bees fall on flowers of my crops, I will see fruits/seeds coming in 1 to 3 weeks
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14.6
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Just playing (they do nothing valuable)
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3.8
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They pollinate most of the crops I grow
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5.4
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They come to fertilize crop flowers
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3.8
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