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On Bee-L  Jerry Bromenshank asked for video evidence of bees collecting 
field corn  pollen or guttation fluid. I did not observe bees collecting 
guttation  fluid, but I was not looking for it either. But I did make a 
video of bees  collecting field corn pollen last summer. This is not 
sweet corn - this is  field corn grown for livestock feed.

This was in the middle of a  drought, and it was the only pollen I was 
seeing coming in, but the bees  were working the field corn for pollen.
 
Clarification, I asked for video of bees collecting guttation droplets.  
From the 53 fields, we had the occasional field where bees would collect 
pollen  from field corn, but like Allen says, only when nothing else was  
available.
 
Jerry


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