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>For the past several years I have been evaluating methods to increase the
>amount of pollen honeybees gathered off of cranberry bogs. This includes
>sugar feeding, wave placement, egg laying/brood manipulation, pollen
>removal, hive locations, hive numbers, QMP, use of complementary nectar
>rich plants etc. Cranberry pollen is not all that attractive to honey bees and
>they will go out of their way to collect anything other than cranberry
>pollen. Some of these methods appear to work some of the time but there is a
>tremendious variation between hives and locations. Getting good consistent
>data is hard. Any suggestions?
This is purely hear say but I have heard that the chinese when wanting bees to
forage particular plant species feed a 30% sugar syrup puree containing
flowers of the target species of plant. It may be an "old wives tale" but give it a
try.
Robert Rice
Apiculture Services Manager (Sth Island)
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Lincoln
New Zealand.
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