> do you have more information on this banana feeding? could it
work?

I never managed to find out why!  It was in a teaching apiary belonging to a commercial beekeeping outfit and the bees seemed to be eating the banana quite happily.  I was a little surprised to find that they were good tempered as I thought that bananas contain isopentyl acetate (or something very similar) which is, of course, an alarm pheromone.  I wondered whether they were attacking the banana but it seemed not.

I also pointed out that they had EFB, but was told that this was the reason that they had not been migrated to the Longan orchards (they were too weak)!

Best wishes

Peter 
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W

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