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<Chris says: 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.>
I grew up on a dairy, early is the norm. I've seen bees on dune grass at
dawn, desert plants on the high deserts of the west at dawn, but none on
gutation droplets.
We're not talking about dew here. Guttation droplets and dew are not the
same.
I will agree that true gutation droplets tend to form in morning - my
wife specializes in photography them from a variety of plants.
She's a superb macrophotographer - has had covers of Nat Mags, her work
hung in Smithsonian's Botanical Gardens in Washington D.C. NEVER sees
a bee on gutation droplets from any type of flower. Also, MT is a
semi-arid state, so it gets hot and dry during the day.
Jerry
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