Jerry Wallace wrote:
I have?several hundreds?of big tulip poplars?filled with blooms and
dripping nectar on the ground?within a mile of my hives and in 5 years I
have never to my knowledge gotten a tulip poplar honey crop.?
Bill Bee:
Since you are in Atlanta, Ga, south of me, that would mean that my theory
about the cold doesn't hold. I have read and heard that poplar trees "drip
nectar." That will be what I do next year is to pull some flowers and see
what is in them. It still seems strange that for many years we got tulip
poplar honey and now the bees don't touch it.
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