Greg Hankins wrote:
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> Hi all!
>
> Are pine trees (southern white pine, loblolly, etc.) of any use to
> honeybees as a source of pollen -- or of nectar?
>
> I recall reading of a pine honey in a book whose author approached > honey
> from a European experience, but I think that was based on pine sap.
 
perhaps they write about the honey collected on pine trees
as a secrete of louse who tap the sap of the tree direkty (not from
nectarglands), and produce a sap what is sugarfull enough for bees to
collect. Nickname "louse urine" "louse piss'
It is a kind of "heavy" honey, dark, thasteful, contains windpollen.
I don't like it, but they say: "it is the best you can get"
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