Hi Stan and all
Several years ago I bought a friend's bees, when he decided to give
it up. These hives were along the property line with a dense
plantation of pine trees to the north. All of these hives were
heavily loaded with clear dark red propolis. I have never seen that
much propolis in my bees which are in a mixed bush. I assumed that
the availability of several acres of pine trees resulted in his bees
collecting so much propolis.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
On 1-Dec-14, at 8:54 PM, Stan Sandler wrote:
>>
>
> Most of our native poplar here
> in PEI is trembling aspen. There are a few non native Lombardi
> poplar
> planted as ornamentals. There is another non native poplar that I
> think is
> called black poplar and is supposed to have medicinal uses. It is
> not very
> common here, but there is a row of them along a road. In the
> summer that
> stretch of road smells strongly like propolis.
> Stan
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