At 03:18 PM 12/27/2005, Dee Lusby wrote:


>Reply:
>Maybe you should come to Arizona when the Sahuaro Cactus
>are blooming and the moon is full and try monitoring some
>local strains here.


Dee -- I'd love to have a counter on a hive to document that event.

One point has been clarified by your comments and Murray's.  Bees fly at
night only when there is light (moon, dusk, dawn) and a nectar flow
(correct?).  I can believe that, we've seen bees flying at dawn with the
first rays of light, mid-summer, on the deserts of eastern Washington, when
the mornings were cool, the afternoons 113 F.  Some of the small shrubs
were releasing nectar in the very early morning.

Jerry

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