There are no bees in Death Valley
The valley has no insect capable of pollinating a date palm. The grove at Furnace Creek grew fruit anyway, every year, because somebody climbed every tree and did it by hand — and the commercial harvest ended in 1996, forty-two years before anything in this book goes wrong.
The full note is still being written. What has already been checked is in the figures below.
- Pollinating insects in the valley
- none
- How the grove was pollinated
- by hand, every spring
- End of the commercial harvest
- 1996
- Years before the collapse in the book
- 42
Sources
- ⟦Forrás — date palm hand pollination⟧
- ⟦Forrás — end of commercial harvest at Furnace Creek⟧
What this is
When Even Machines Prayed for Rain is an interactive gamebook set in 2052, on a road across the American Southwest. Every location in it is a real place, and notes like this one are what happens when the real place refuses to behave.
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