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Related: About this forumHemp fields offer a late-season pollen source for stressed bees
VANCOUVER Fields of hemp might become a late-season pollen bonanza for bees.
Industrial hemp plants, the no-high varieties of cannabis, are becoming a more familiar sight for American bees as states create pilot programs for legal growing. Neither hemp nor the other strains of the Cannabis sativa species grown for recreational or medicinal uses offer insects any nectar, and all rely on wind to spread pollen. Still, a wide variety of bees showed up in two experimental hemp plots during a one-month trapping survey by entomology student Colton OBrien of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Bees in 23 out of the 66 genera known to live in Colorado tumbled into OBriens traps, he reported November 11 at Entomology 18, the annual meeting of the U.S. and two Canadian entomological societies. OBrien and his adviser, Arathi Seshadri, think this is the first survey of bees in cannabis fields.
Industrial hemp plants, the no-high varieties of cannabis, are becoming a more familiar sight for American bees as states create pilot programs for legal growing. Neither hemp nor the other strains of the Cannabis sativa species grown for recreational or medicinal uses offer insects any nectar, and all rely on wind to spread pollen. Still, a wide variety of bees showed up in two experimental hemp plots during a one-month trapping survey by entomology student Colton OBrien of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Bees in 23 out of the 66 genera known to live in Colorado tumbled into OBriens traps, he reported November 11 at Entomology 18, the annual meeting of the U.S. and two Canadian entomological societies. OBrien and his adviser, Arathi Seshadri, think this is the first survey of bees in cannabis fields.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cannabis-fields-offer-late-season-pollen-source-stressed-bees
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Strange how something
that was eliminated from the Commodity Markets in 1949 via fake Propaganda Program run by Dow Chemical and GE as well as DuPont. In order to kill off the Hemp Fiber market in favor of their Synthetic Fiber market.
We as farmers,knew the economic as well as the Environmental benefits of Hemp. My Grand Parents used it as a Cash crop as well as a Erosion Control cover Crop. Still remember the Feds bringing in a crew to plow down Gramps hemp grass water ways.
JudyM
(29,517 posts)2. Unlike humans, bees already have a good buzz on.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)3. WOW!!! now that cannabis is legal, can hemp be far behind?
Hemp...can do anything you can do!
safeinOhio
(34,105 posts)4. A hemp hydrogen society
is the answer to global warming.