Mike Palmer wrote: Have any pollinators here made a crop while on blueberries? > I never pull blueberry honey, don't have the time. I do not think even strong hives would have made a full box. But they did not starve. The strong hives definitely were heavy. They all got a super in the blueberries and so were in 3 boxes coming out and some of the stands (five hives) made the engine slow when the boom lifted them if they were far out from the truck. I had about 2600 hives in the blueberry barrens of PEI. But I had another 600 in smaller fields in mixed agricultural areas. They might have had a few days of clover before they came out. But this year we had everything set in summer yards within the first week after clover started to bloom. But those were heavier than the hives from the barrens. The barrens is also extremely overpopulated with bees (four hives to the acre this year for my main customer) which is noticeably stressful. I worked long hours every night without a break to get them out of there as soon as they released them. They also wanted to spray a fungicide for monolignia blight. Stan *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm