Pollen from olive trees?

[Zante]

I know olive trees are wind pollinated, so don't need bees to help them, but would the bees partake of the pollen or ignore it altogether?

 

[juanito]

Greetings from sunny Spain,
there are olive trees all around us and I have never seen them being worked by the honey bees,
Having said that when the olives are in full pomp so too are a lot of other plants, hope this helps.

 

[castanea]

Olive Trees

Hi
I live in France never seen honey bees near our olive trees .

 

[Finman]

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Bees forage many wind pollinated plants, even if crude protein of pollen is only couple percents. But you see when you look yourself.


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[Al-In-Italy]

We kept bees in Italy for several years and had olive trees as well. We occasionally saw bees visiting olive blossom, but it was never systematically worked. For all I know, what we saw were new foragers having a quick check and then deciding, "Nah, can't be bothered," and moving on.

As Juanito says, when olives flower there are normally a lot of other pollen sources blooming.