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Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:41:08 -0500
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> he started to eat and enjoy himself eating comb Linden honey. 

All is not sweetness and light in the world of flowers:

The pollen and nectar of Tilia spp. (Tiliaceae) [Linden, basswood] contain mannose, a sugar toxic to insects (Vogel 1978). The pollen of Zygadenus paniculatus (Liliaceae) [Death camas] causes severe intoxica- tion to honeybees and can also lead to the death of the colony (Goolsbey 1998). Sharma et al. (1986) noticed that the toxic nectar of tea plants (Camellia thea L.) caused the death of honeybee colonies.  from "Amygdalin in almond nectar and pollen – facts and possible roles" by I. London-Shafir, et al

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