Ragwort?

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Matt1971

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The farmer who's farm that I keep my bee's on asked me a question, how do I know what my bee's feed on? Because he had been reading a report about livestock that had been eating ragwort and this may have some affect to humans who eat the meat from these animals. Should we have any concerns with the honey the bee's produce?
 
I followed the link and it prompted two questions:

1. What is a herbaceous animal? An organism is either one or the other, not both, surely

2. How does anyone know that animals find ragwort to be bitter? Did they put a complaint in the guest book?
 
What is a herbaceous animal?

The questions might arise: are there herbaceous plants? Are there herbaceous fungi? Is 'athletes foot' or ringworm carniverous fungi?

Maybe I won't follow the link!

RAB
 
Herbaceous surely applies to plants that die down in the autumn. They may arise again the following year or not.I have herbaceous annuals in my garden :)
I can't see animals being herbaceous, perhaps I'm missing something:rolleyes:
 

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