> but have yet to see a honey bee working Borage. Here in Belgium, honey bees love Borage and work it exuberantly, but some attention seems necessary since the nectar and the pollen contain some toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) just as ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea): http://www.qsi-q3.de/assets/Uploads/Neuer-Ordner/Food-additivesandcontaminan tsDbecke-Beckh-Lllmann2011.pdf http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Bora_off.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobaea_vulgaris Kind regards, Ghislain De Roeck, Belgium. *********************************************** 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