I was asked the other day about the colour of lavender pollen loads and must
admit that I did not know - not enough lavender in the garden for the
honeybees to work it.

Pollen looks to be orange-yellow, but someone suggested that the loads are a
sort of brick red (like horsechestnut).  Dorothy Hodges does not list it in
'Pollen Loads of the Honeybee'.

Can anyone help?

Peter Edwards
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www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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