In northern USA many folks have allergies to tree pollen and these have been verfied by doctors 
doing sensistivity testing.  Allergy season is not just August around here when the ragweed is 

In late March into mid June a fair amount of bee pollen comes from trees around here at least. The 
huge abundance of spring tree pollen is an important source for spring colonies to buildup on. 

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