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"Jerry Bromenshank asked for video evidence of bees collecting
field corn pollen or guttation fluid. I did not observe bees
collecting
guttation fluid,"
You may need to get up early! Beowulf Cooper, on page 22 of The
Honeybees of the British Isles, wrote concerning the behavioural
characteristics of the British Black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera"
6.NON COLLECTION OF DEW AT DAWN. Bees can drink from puddle margins or
dewdrops at considerably lower temperatures than they can forage for
nectar or pollen. Strains of bee from sunnier climates than ours get
busy very early on a summer morning gathering dew, well before sunrise.
This behaviour is presumably related to conditions in their country of
origin where water for cooling the hive as well as for brood rearing is
likely to evaporate quickly as the sun rises and as the daytime wind
rise. Our climate does not require such a habit and our native bees
therefore tend to star their water gathering later in the day,
preferring nectar to water where it can be had......"
So if your bees are not Amm and there are no other water sources
available in maize (corn) growing areas they might take advantage of
guttation fluid for that purpose.
Chris
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