Greetings:

 Inger Lamb inquired about Plants that bees work for nector, without much
response from the list apparently.

Please look at  "American Honey Plants",  by Frank G.  Pellett,  published
by Dadant,  5th Edition,  Third printing  in 1978,  about 450 pages.   While
old,  it covers an huge variety of flora that are attrective to bees.  I
cannot suggest a seller, but perhaps Dadant can do so, if it it still on the
market.

There has recently been a short thread on cotton as a nector source, and
this book states it precisely, with accuracy.  I can attest to this, having
kept a single hive on the edge of a large cotton field for six years, and to
my knowledge not made a single frame of cotton honey in that time (Location:
South Central Alabama).....Pellett points out (quoting several sources) that
the on light sandy soil, cotton makes little honey, and this was the soil
type here.  This colony was very good, making each year eight to ten gallons
from other sources, but none during the month of August, early September
while the cotton was in bloom.

Bob Barnett
Birmingham,  AL