On 20-Sep-10, at 7:51 PM, Rob Green wrote:
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>
> Take red clover. Apis M. has a tongue too short to reach the nectar
> in the plant. It's not the bee the plant was made to fit. And to
> presume that some adaptation is all we need is like insisting that
> Apis M would adapt (what? by tongue exercises?) to reach the
> nectar. It would starve first.
>
Hi Rob and all
My best production ever was from 6 hives in the middle of 20 acres of
red clover. I think that if the level of the nectar in the floweret
is high enough Apis M can work it.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
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