I keep reading posts about bees deliberatly failing to collect pollen
when they "think" the hive has enough.  I wish someone would teach
this to my bees (in Seattle).  I have to use traps to keep them from
plugging out the hive.  How would any hive collect enough for next
winter/spring brood feeding if they modulated their collection to
current needs?  I think if there is one dominant characteristic of
A.m.m. it is that of no restraint in foraging.  If available, they
will collect more nectar and more pollen than they could conceivably
need. In the summertime, they can't tell whether they in Seattle or
Alaska.   PS.  Of course, foragers don't store nectar themselves,
they pass it on to the house bees.   Dan



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