Hi Stan and all

Several years ago I bought a friend's bees, when he decided to give  
it up.  These hives were along the property line with a dense  
plantation  of pine trees to the north.  All of these hives were  
heavily loaded with clear dark red propolis.  I have never seen that  
much propolis in my bees which are in a mixed bush.  I assumed that  
the availability of several acres of pine trees resulted in his bees  
collecting so much propolis.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W


On 1-Dec-14, at 8:54 PM, Stan Sandler wrote:

>>
>
>   Most of our native poplar here
> in PEI is trembling aspen.   There are a few non native Lombardi  
> poplar
> planted as ornamentals.  There is another non native poplar that I  
> think is
> called black poplar and is supposed to have medicinal uses.  It is  
> not very
> common here, but there is a row of them along a road.  In the  
> summer that
> stretch of road smells strongly like propolis.
> Stan

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