paul says that corn pollen for each field is only available for 7-10 days but the fields are planted over about a 3 week period, making corn pollen available for a 30 day period.  I wonder if neonicitids being similar to nicotine make the bees prefer poor pollens such as corn in the past some work showed that bees prefer sugar laced with cocaine.
Eric Slayton

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