A few years ago, we had an ice storm with high winds in late March, or April. Standing outside in the night, it sounded like distant gunfire, and a lot of it. It was the sound of branches and limbs breaking off of the trees. It was memorable for a lot of reasons. We had a bee meeting a few days before, and this subject of maple honey was brought up because we had one member who made maple syrup. He was pretty certain that bees would not take maple sap because of its low sugar content. A couple of days after the ice storm, the bees were out, and they were sucking up sap like there was no tomorrow. Several of the beekeepers at the next meeting brought it up, including the maple syrup producer. It was too early in the season to obtain any honey, though, I have wondered what it would have been like. Roekel