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Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:18:02 +0100

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Re: Bees going bananas?

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>Honey Bee alarm pheromone smells like bananas (isopentyl acetate).

Do bananas contain isopentyl acetate?  I thought that was pear drops.

In Thailand I saw colonies being fed bananas (placed on the queen excluder); there was no aggression.

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Peter 
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W

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