Stuart,
 
   You did WHAT to dandelions????  Around here, dandelions are the first
spring flower that the bees build up on.  Last spring, it rained all the
way through dandelion bloom, and lots of my hives died out.  This year,
I'm planting dandelions in all my neighbor's lawns!!  (grin!)
 
Gerry and the other Visels at
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Winnebago, Illinois, USA
(75 miles northwest of Chicago)
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 01:31:13 EST Stuart E Grant <[log in to unmask]> writes:
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>Thanks Vic. I was quite concerned and you helped. I had to kill a lawn
>last September and had applied roundup. The lawn was covered in
>Dandelions and with all my best efforts I couldn't avoid spraying a lot
>of bees. The honeyflow hereabouts in June is R. procerus/discolor which
>is the king of weeds<g> and unlikely to be effected much by the roundup
>but I thought the bees might suffer.
>
>...Stuart
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>...Stuart Grant,(49degrees N; 123 degrees, 20 min W; elevation 20m;
>Strait of Georgia 2k; rural urban combination  in temperate rainforest
>setting)
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>>Vic Kroenke
>>Kansas, USA
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