Chris wrote:
> Bees have been using ivy in Northern
> Europe for thousands of years.  Just from the evolutionary point of view
it seems
> unlikely that a plant that flowers late when there are fewer pollinating
> insects around will produce a nectar that is detrimental to the major
pollinator.

Are bees the major pollinator of ivy?  Being the last major nectar source,
the ivy around these parts seems to be covered in every type of flying
insect left alive, especially flies and wasps.

Peter Edwards
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