>The authors ".determined what plants managed honey bees and bumble bees
>visited during high bush blueberry pollination season. They found that the
>most pollen collected was from plants other than blueberries, even though
>the blueberry bushes were the most abundant resources during the study."

     Having pollinated blueberries here in Australia bees are not able to 
collect pollen.  They pollinate by poking their head into the flower to 
lick the nectar running down the inside of the petals.   In doing that 
they bump their head up against the pollen, but cannot collect it.

         Geoff Manning

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