Peter Borst wrote:
> Workers with reduced numbers of hairs and shiny
> black abdomens have been reported previously and
> the appearance ..., feeding
> on certain nectars or pollens, 
When I was taken around the Blueberry fields by Tony Jadczak he pointed 
out "shiny black bees". They were common and I believe it was because of 
the small blueberry flower which the bees tried to get into for nectar. 
They literally wore their hair off.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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