Hello
I was talking to a fellow beek today and we got to talking about pollen and nector. He siad thaat if bees are bringing in pollen then they are bring in nector but i told him not so that if one plany yeilds pollen does not mean it has nector and we got into a heated disscussion now he has been raising bees for years and he knows alot but i was trying to explain that things have changed alot from when i was raising bees back in the 70's and 80's but i need help to prove that i might be half way right i think that if one plant has pollen it does not have to have nector.
Tom
Not all plants that produce nectar produce pollen, and vice versa.
Check out this link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2168.html
That should be proof enough.
Quotehttp://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2168.html
Thanks for the site ctsoth-this helps me end a long standing disagreement between me and a few others in town. I noticed that when the sumac(rhus) is in bloom around my place that a lot of the bees go to it and forego the clover in bloom.My friends say I was totally wrong about this,but now I can show them this.
Hello
Thank you for this information now i know i was right on some of the things because in the early morning my bees are bringing in pollen by the loads but i also know that they are bringing in nector also because they can hardly make it to the front porch of the hive.
Tom
You cannot win stupid person with depating. One basis of beeknowledge is that some plant have pollen, some a lot nectar and tehre are many plants where bees do not visit.