Campus Units
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
7-1994
Journal or Book Title
American Bee Journal
Volume
134
Issue
7
First Page
477
Last Page
483
Abstract
In the May column, we reviewed published reports on the genus Agastache3 as bee forage and came to two somewhat contradictory conclusions:
1. The data support the contention that under proper circumstances several species of Agastache can be exceptional bee forage. These data came from observations made on both wild (Pellett, 1926; Vansell, 1933; and Wilson et al., 1958) and cultivated plants (Terry, 1872; Pellett, 1943 and 1946; and Mayer et al., 1982).
2. Despite Agastache's potential productivity and the fact that there were two historical periods in which one or more members of the genus were cultilvated for bee forage, the beekeeping literature is almost totally devoid of data, or even of testimony, derived from large-scale plantings. The major exception to this statement is a short paper by Mayer et al. (1982) where the estimated honey production of Washington beekeeper John Eckstrom suggested that more than a ton of honey could be produced from an acre of land planted to Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) O. Kuntze.
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Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ayers, George S. and Widrlechner, Mark P., "The Genus Agastache as Bee Forage: An Analysis of Reader Returns" (1994). NCRPIS Publications and Papers. 65.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ncrpis_pubs/65
Comments
This article is from American Bee Journal 134 (1994): 477.