Bill Bartlett wrote:
> bees in my area (midatlantic coast, US) no longer work the tulip poplar tree for nectar. ...
> add another tree to the list. That would be the black locust.
Could it be that we are not ready for the nectar flow like we used to 
be?  Some years they are early and some years they are late.  There is 
also not a flow from black locust, for example, every year.  Here in NE 
Illinois I have been watching the black locust around me this year and 
they have not yet bloomed.  There appear to be more than in recent years 
and I have taken the measure to add supers but the weather this Spring 
but it has not yet happened.  The flow this year was delayed for a 
number of the regular events.  Even dandelions were late.

Erik

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