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Bcrazy

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Where i live we are surrounded by fields of potatoes.
Question Why don't the bees use the potatoe flower?We have purple flower and white flower
 

susbees

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Somewhere recently it was said that they do milk aphids for honeydew on potatoes (coinciding with spraying of said aphids most probably :( ).
 

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