On 13/12/2010 11:49 AM, Bob Harrison wrote:
>
>
> CORN is worthless to beekeepers. Takes up land which used to contain 
> clover
> ( at least every forth year before ROUNDUP). The pollen is the least
> nutrition of our Midwest pollen.
>
> My bees in areas of corn do poorly both during the honey flow and the 
> next
> winter. Dwindle and die in many cases. The problem started with the 
> use of
> the neonicotinoids.
>
> Iowa is almost solid corn today ...........

Surely this is the answer to your question.

Geoff Manning

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at:
http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm