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Black pollen

PostPosted:30 Aug 2018, 10:13
by Jim Norfolk
Getting a lot of black/very dark brown pollen coming in. Any ideas?

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:30 Aug 2018, 13:58
by Jim Norfolk
Trying to insert image showing the pollen in cells, but am getting "file too large". What is the file limit? the file is 2.3 MB.

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:01 Sep 2018, 18:29
by DianeBees
i use a flickr account

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:01 Sep 2018, 18:50
by Jim Norfolk
Black pollen turns out to be poppy. I was out walking the dog when I passed an area of late flowering poppies with bees loading up with black pollen.

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:02 Sep 2018, 10:00
by AdamD
I had assumed poppy - or would have done at a different time of year.
I currently have bright yellow and bright orange pollen coming in. And some bees have a little stripe of pollen on their heads - Himalayan Balsam?

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:02 Sep 2018, 20:13
by WalnutTreeBees
AdamD wrote:
02 Sep 2018, 10:00
I had assumed poppy - or would have done at a different time of year.
I currently have bright yellow and bright orange pollen coming in. And some bees have a little stripe of pollen on their heads - Himalayan Balsam?
Himalayan Balsam does leave a stripe but it's creamy white when I've seen it. Very noticeable too - all the way down the thorax. Orange/yellow pollen on the head may well be from Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris).

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:12 May 2020, 10:04
by curly green finger's
If the pollens browny orange it might be gorse

Re: Black pollen

PostPosted:12 May 2020, 11:49
by NigelP
AdamD wrote:
02 Sep 2018, 10:00
I had assumed poppy - or would have done at a different time of year.
I currently have bright yellow and bright orange pollen coming in. And some bees have a little stripe of pollen on their heads - Himalayan Balsam?
If it's a little yellow dot on their foreheads likely to be OSR.
Lots of mine currently have this and OSR is but 2 fields away.