>  mike bassett n.y. wrote:

> we had the best locust flow old time bee keepers had ever seen last year.
> some trees are just now flowering but not like last year.

Mike,
I have to think that it is a period of cold weather that allows the trees to 
produce nectar.  That is what has changed here in Maryland and south.  You 
still have a cold period in N.Y.

Bill B 

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