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Title: Strawberries and honey flow
Post by: IABeeMan on March 22, 2009, 11:13:25 AM
 I was wondering if strawberries make a good honey crop? I know the berries benefit greatly from the bees but am wondering if the honey crop is good from the strawberries.
Title: Re: Strawberries and honey flow
Post by: Kathyp on March 22, 2009, 11:36:13 AM
not so much here.  they have to much other stuff to work and strawberries are not a 1st choice.  they will work what is available, so if strawberries are all that's around, they will go to that.  i do see bumblebees on mine, but that's about it.
Title: Re: Strawberries and honey flow
Post by: rast on March 22, 2009, 06:04:54 PM
 According to Walt Kelly, a commercial beek that lives very near "the strawberry capital of the world", Plant City, Fl.
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