Bees, Bananas and a Bull!
Channel: Phil Chandler: Barefoot Beekeeper
Date: 04/09/2019

One of the many tales passed down from beekeeper to beekeeper is that BANANAS SHOULD NEVER BE EATEN IN AN APIARY - allegedly because of the similarity between the bees' alarm pheromone and the smell of a ripe banana.

In this video, I put that theory to the test.

Recent research on bananas as food for bees - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j3TdyD1Nb7FTBECcuBoRwSzh6Y_CfAnT/view?fbclid=IwAR1npYQj0S2N-Wbbo3ow2rBHpaJkcPsTQGeeotmOPHPf2yJU9-ROWPbHjbU

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