A beek told me this

[tom]

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

[ctsoth]

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.

[latebee]

http://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.

[tom]

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

[Finsky]

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.