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Re: Harvesting Borage Seed
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Ghislain De Roeck <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:57:02 +0200
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> but have yet to see a honey bee working Borage.

Here in Belgium, honey bees love Borage and work it exuberantly, but some
attention seems necessary since the nectar and the pollen contain some toxic
pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) just as ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn.
Senecio jacobaea):

http://www.qsi-q3.de/assets/Uploads/Neuer-Ordner/Food-additivesandcontaminan
tsDbecke-Beckh-Lllmann2011.pdf
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Bora_off.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobaea_vulgaris

Kind regards,

Ghislain De Roeck,
Belgium.

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