On 5-Aug-10, at 12:22 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>>> 
> Does this coincide with your black locust bloom?
> 
No Black Locust here.  I checked my Peterson Field Guide which shows the range 
ending southeast of Lake Erie

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

Bob, I think your Peterson's shows the natural range. I don't know your area 
very well, but I'd be surprised if there were no black locust there, since it's 
all up and down the river. I think you know my friend Rusty, with whom I keep 
bees on his farm a bit south of you. There you'll find a dozen mature trees 
standing 80 feet or so, and many more smaller ones. Where I live in Streetsville 
(where every year we have a "Bread and Honey"  founder's festival) there are 
about 10 stands of black locust in a mile stretch of the river, some with 60 or 
70 trees.  They generally come into bloom the first week of June (though this 
year they were two weeks early).
regards,
Stephen Rice

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