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> I would like to monitor soybeans this summer for nectar quianity/ quality, amoung various types, Is there any "laymans" way to evaluate either
Perhaps you could let the bees evaluate them. Just make a square of a
certain area out of something light, wood or tubing, and lay it on the
field and count the number of bees at about the same conditions
(midday on a sunny day at a field within 1000 metres of a beeyard, for
example). Bees are pretty good at evaluating nectar quality insofar
as sugar content is concerned anyway. They will fly noticeably
farther for sweet clover than other crops.
I would be most interested in what you find Charles. Here in Prince
Edward Island we have a very short season. It was too short for the
older varieties of soybeans. But early beans were bred (in Ontario,
I think), and one of the early varieties was Maple Arrow. Bees do not
visit the beans here which I think were descended from it. But one
farmer had a market for some beans for Japan to be used for tofu and I
did see bees in that variety. I asked our local agricultural research
station, where I kept bees for years, to look for varieties that bees
visit, but they never did.
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