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Michael Palmer <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:14:04 -0400
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> Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but wonder how using diluted blueberry pancake syrup would work to condition bees to the blueberry blossom.  Has anyone tried that?  Of course, that would nullify use of the collected honey for sale as blueberry honey.
>    

Surplus honey collected from blueberries? In the blueberry barrens of 
Maine? Someone's parade got rained on...literally this year. The bees 
starved while on blueberries, and last year was, I hear, not much better.

Have any pollinators here made a crop while on blueberries?

Mike

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