David Fourer wrote:
> Has any method been developed to positively identify what flowers the bees
are going to?
We had a speaker at our local club who does a lot of pollen analysis
identification in honey.
I came away with the impression that although some pollens are perhaps easy
to identify,
many are just by pollen family and an electron microscope would be necessary
to get the
magnification necessary for a specific flower ID.
I often see lots of different colored pollen loads coming into my hive, but
the honey is usually
consistent in color throughout a super, leading me to believe the bees are
pretty consistent
in staying with the same type nectar source even with many different pollens
in the honey.
A combination of taste, color, pollen ID and harvest season factors ought to
give you a decent
ID of your nectar source.
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