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Re: Cotton Varieties and Honey Production
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Mike S <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:58:26 -0700
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>>I picked cotton by hand and do not remember ever seeing a honey bee in 
the cotton 
>>field when we were hand picking and all the leaves were still
 on the plant. We did not 
>>defoliate.

The cotton picking time was in late August was it not?  About the time school started?  I'm wondering if the plant had matured to the point by that time that the nectaries were no longer functional.

Mike in LA


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