When a bee collects pollen from a regular farm then flies to a organic farm does it effect the organic foods?

Do organic and regular farms even exist next to each other? If so can cross contamination happen? Are the organic fruits and veggies no longer organic?

When a bee collects pollen from a regular farm then flies to a organic farm does it effect the organic foods?
Depends on what stage the food is at. Organic farms are useually far away (Cover's apple ranch for ex.) from other contaminated farms. No matter what you are going to recieve pesticides because thta my dear is airborne.
Reply:I believe this has happened in canada
Reply:No, the Bee makes honey from the pollen and the pollen on his feet from the non organic tree he takes home and purifies before going to the organic orchard.
Reply:now this is a very interesting question!
Reply:No, a bee pollens and cross pollens products...It has nothing to do with organic or contamination.


A bee is after the nectar, not the fruit produced.
Reply:Federally certified "organic" food is certified as to **the production method**, not the characteristic of the food. Foods produced by organic can't be GMO, treated with synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, antibiotics, etc. The incidental bee pollinating the organic food would have no effect, legally, or for that matter in any other tangible way. It doesn't effect the "production" of the food or its tangible characteristics.





However, there does have to be a "buffer" between an organic farm and a convention farm to prevent "overspray" of pesticides.
Reply:Only if the bee is infected with insecticide or herbicide than you can sue the organic farm.
Reply:Good question, and one that's been problematic for organic farmers, who want to certify "organic" but the plants have been pollinated from non-organic sources.
Reply:not signifacanly low probability.
Reply:What a great question! I read up on pollen, and no one says anything about there being difference, but it makes me think that it would!





Pollen is produced in the microsporangium (contained in the anther of an angiosperm flower, male cone of a coniferous plant, or male cone of other seed plants). Pollen grains come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and surface markings characteristic of the species (see photomicrograph at right). Most, but certainly not all, are spherical. Pollen grains of pines, firs, and spruces are winged. The smallest pollen grain, that of the Forget-me-not plant (Myosotis sp.), is around 6 µm (0.006 mm) in diameter. The study of pollen is called palynology and is highly useful in paleontology, archeology, and forensics.





Except in the case of some submerged aquatic plants, the mature pollen-grain has a double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered cellulose (the endospore or intine) and a tough outer cuticularized exospore or exine. The exine often bears spines or warts, or is variously sculptured, and the character of the markings is often of value for identifying genus, species, or even cultivar or individual. In some flowering plants, germination of the pollen grain often begins before it leaves the microsporangium, with the generative cell forming the two sperm cells.





The transfer of pollen grains to the female reproductive structure (pistil in angiosperms) is called pollination. This transfer can be mediated by the wind, in which case the plant is described as anemophilous (literally wind-loving). Anemophilous plants typically produce great quantities of very lightweight pollen grains, sometimes with air-sacs. Non-flowering seed plants (e.g., pine trees) are characteristically anemophilous. Anemophilous flowering plants generally have inconspicuous flowers. Entomophilous (literally insect-loving) plants produce pollen that is relatively heavy, sticky and protein-rich, for dispersal by insect pollinators attracted to their flowers. Many insects and some mites are specialized to feed on pollen, and are called palynivores.