There have been a number of posting concerning bees and seeds and it seems that because several people have found seeds on bottom boards or at hive entrances, it seems logical to conclude that bees carry seeds. In any earlier note I claimed that bees were not structurally adapted to carry seeds but this is just an assertion based the morphology of the legs and 35 years of observing bees. It could be I've missed something. What we need is evidence - real observations of bees carrying seeds or even indirect evidence, say from pollen traps. If bees carry seeds, we should be able to get this on video, and even if we can't catch them in the act, the seeds should be scrapped off into the collection box on a good pollen trap - one which is sound enough to exclude mice. Can't say I've found seeds in pollen traps (N=50) I've run in the spring myself. Has anyone else? Monarch Watch EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://monarch.bio.ukans.edu DPLEX-L: send message "info DPLEX-L" to [log in to unmask] PHONE: (913) 864 4051 FAX: (913) 864 5321 SNAIL: c/o O.R. Taylor, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of KS, Lawrence KS 66045