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On 17/08/2014 11:05 PM, Karen Thurlow-Kimball, New Moon Apiary wrote:
> Some flowers produce more than one color pollen. Purple-loosestrife has
> three different length stamens each producing a different color pollen,
> greenish, dirty yellow and bright yellow. I used to live near acres of
> loosestrife and the bees frequently would have different color pollen in
> each corbicula when working this plant.
That is interesting. I have never seen a bee work different plants and
have so far not seen different coloured pollen in one load, despite
having cleaned a fair amount of pollen for show and display purposes.
However this season I was watching a bee work a shrub/tree for pollen.
The pollen was yellow and I have thought for years that the pollen was a
grey colour. The tree flowers multiple times, with about ten days or so
between flowerings. Later I was standing there during what turned out
to be the last flowering for the season, and lo and behold the pollen
was grey. This season I will make an effort to check it during each
flower burst, and check out more individual trees.
Geoff Manning
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