"Jerry Bromenshank asked for video evidence of bees collecting field corn pollen or guttation fluid. I did not observe bees collecting guttation fluid," You may need to get up early! Beowulf Cooper, on page 22 of The Honeybees of the British Isles, wrote concerning the behavioural characteristics of the British Black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera" 6.NON COLLECTION OF DEW AT DAWN. Bees can drink from puddle margins or dewdrops at considerably lower temperatures than they can forage for nectar or pollen. Strains of bee from sunnier climates than ours get busy very early on a summer morning gathering dew, well before sunrise. This behaviour is presumably related to conditions in their country of origin where water for cooling the hive as well as for brood rearing is likely to evaporate quickly as the sun rises and as the daytime wind rise. Our climate does not require such a habit and our native bees therefore tend to star their water gathering later in the day, preferring nectar to water where it can be had......" So if your bees are not Amm and there are no other water sources available in maize (corn) growing areas they might take advantage of guttation fluid for that purpose. Chris *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html