I did a in depth inspection of my hives at the day camp today. The 1 layens hives is doing well today, but not one single langstroth has done anything either second deep, nor do they have ANY stores at all! Zero, zip. Lots of brood, lots of bees, no deaders. Even the Lloyd st hive is like that.Any thoughts? The only variable I see is that the farmer planted corn this year, but I'm not seeing a connection. Ragweed is in full bloom around them. I can try to feed them, but I'd like to know what's going on!
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I did a in depth inspection of my hives at the day camp today. The 1 layens hives is doing well today, but not one single langstroth has done anything either second deep, nor do they have ANY stores at all! Zero, zip. Lots of brood, lots of bees, no deaders. Even the Lloyd st hive is like that.Any thoughts? The only variable I see is that the farmer planted corn this year, but I'm not seeing a connection. Ragweed is in full bloom around them. I can try to feed them, but I'd like to know what's going on!
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On Sep 5, 2025, at 10:14 PM, marvin <marvin...@gmail.com> wrote:
A comment re Jeanne's comment on corn. You're correct in that corn is wind pollinated. But corn pollen is a popular source of pollen for bees. I've noticed this particularly with sweet corn. They really hammer it. I've never seen honey bees go to field corn however, although it is reported that bees collect field corn pollen as well. It may be that there is so much field corn that bee foraging is imperceptible. It is not thought that there is any nectar harvesting from corn, although water from guttation or pooling in the whorls may be collected.
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