In a message dated 01/10/2004 05:07:22 GMT Standard Time, Jim writes:

>   I've been advocating tracking growing degree-days as a way to nail down
> blooms to within a few days for years now, and I've yet to find any other
> beekeeper even trying it.  Discouraging.

Not sure what you mean by degree-days.  The Devon Apicultural Research Group
is now into its second year of tracking the flowering periods of bee-plants in
relation to the location and altitude of participants.  Nothing published
yet.

I did something of the sort myself about 20 years ago unsystematically and
there was quite a wide variation from year to year.

Chris

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