. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fig. 3. BALSAM FIN (Abies bahamea.) Staminate cones producing quantities of pollen. Iml the bees do not gather it. posed of the thread-like glutinous stigmas, and it would not only he useless but would be positively harmful to the welfare of the plant for them to secrete nectar, and as a matter of fact they never do. Whence come, then, the stories oi corn honey? We have all seen bees gathering pollen from the spindles oi corn, and Frank C. Pellett says that he has seen multitudes of them so d. As plant-lice are some- times found on the foliage or stal
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fig. 3. BALSAM FIN (Abies bahamea.) Staminate cones producing quantities of pollen. Iml the bees do not gather it. posed of the thread-like glutinous stigmas, and it would not only he useless but would be positively harmful to the welfare of the plant for them to secrete nectar, and as a matter of fact they never do. Whence come, then, the stories oi corn honey? We have all seen bees gathering pollen from the spindles oi corn, and Frank C. Pellett says that he has seen multitudes of them so d. As plant-lice are some- times found on the foliage or stalks oi '"Mi he suggests in "Productive Beekeeping" that the gathering oi honey-dew may have given rise to these reports. This s^'ins not im- probable, especially in a warm cli- mate, ami would offer an explanation ot the different qualities of corn honey in different years. In many instances, however, "corn ? " is purely a product of tin- imagination, like the "tub 1 ev" .if I alifornia. The tule is a wind pol- linated sedge growing five to ten II < t tall, .iml covering some ol wel land; in the delta re- gion of the San Joaquin and Sacra- mento rivers there are estimated to March be 50,000 acres of tule. As there are many beekeepers who suppose that all flowers are nectariferous, it is not surprising that they believe that this great expanse of vegetation must be the source of much honey; but Richter very properly denies the existence of "tule honej " Since both the wild and domestic bees would speedily perish if de- prived of pollen, it is astonishing to note how little attention this subject has received from the bee journals. In looking over the indices I have been surprised to find that in some years there is not a singl,. entry un- der pollen, while in others there are only two or three, mostly notes re- lating to pollen substitutes, or the exclusion of pollen from the honey. Pollen plants certainly grow in a terra in
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