a Pete B snip followed by > my comment..

When using pollen counts to determine the nectar sources of a honey sample, we recognize thatthe types and percentages of recovered
pollen do not provide a one-to-one correlation with the true nectar sources in the honey.

>To my limited understanding relationships (basically a simple math model) has been established between prevalence of certain pollen and nectar generated.  This allow Dr VanBryant to designate varietal but even this is determined by a threshold... which is to say no varietal is 100% of a specific source a beekeeper is trying to collect.

>One variable that comes into play as explained to me by the graduate student who work with Dr VanBryant is the size of the individual pollen grains.  That is the larger one tend to fall off during flight and rarely make it back to the hive.

>Another example here may be wild asters which the bees work heavily for their pollen even after the plant has been killed by the first frost.

Gene back in Texas..

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