On 13/12/2010 11:49 AM, Bob Harrison wrote:
>
>
> CORN is worthless to beekeepers. Takes up land which used to contain
> clover
> ( at least every forth year before ROUNDUP). The pollen is the least
> nutrition of our Midwest pollen.
>
> My bees in areas of corn do poorly both during the honey flow and the
> next
> winter. Dwindle and die in many cases. The problem started with the
> use of
> the neonicotinoids.
>
> Iowa is almost solid corn today ...........
Surely this is the answer to your question.
Geoff Manning
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