Do bees like cannabis pollen?

[VolimPicke]

I have a friend in Toronto and she planted some seeds this year.
One of her plants was a male and she was impressed with all the pretty flowers.
She did not know it was a male.
She also commented that she had never before seen so many bees around a flowering plant before.

Have others noticed the same thing?
Do bees like cannabis pollen?

 

[crisnpropa]

It's a great late season source of pollen for many pollinators. I had a male plant amongst 11 females one season and it was an incredible sight to see 10 ft tall plant & all the many different creatures it attracted.

 

[Severed Tongue]

I have a friend in Toronto and she planted some seeds this year.
One of her plants was a male and she was impressed with all the pretty flowers.
She did not know it was a male.
She also commented that she had never before seen so many bees around a flowering plant before.

Have others noticed the same thing?
Do bees like cannabis pollen?

Male Cannabis plants do not have flowers, they have pollen sacs that pop and drop, so not sure what your friends is growing there but it's not cannabis.

 

[Unga Bunga]

Semantics.

 

[VolimPicke]

 

[Dreaming1]

I don't see bees, but wasps love the plants.

 

[xtsho]

Bees will collect pollen from male cannabis plants. Bees eat nectar and pollen. They require both.

Male Cannabis plants do not have flowers, they have pollen sacs that pop and drop, so not sure what your friends is growing there but it's not cannabis.

Bees eat pollen. They make bee bread.

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[VolimPicke]

Bees eat pollen. They make bee bread.

Mmmmm Cannabis bread.

How nice it would be if we could train bees to collect THC
and make "Happy Honey".

 

[Freerojo]

Funny, just observed a bumblebee check out my plants but turned up their nose and moved onto regular flowers.

 

[budtoker221]

I had bumblebees all over my hazeman madness male last year. They were going from one pollen sac to the next all day long for weeks.

 

[conor c]

Well supposedly people have actually already experimented with using trained bees to pollinate cannabis it is possible apparently i read that somewhere or maybe even a video on youtube i cant quite remember lol

 

[conor c]

I don't see bees, but wasps love the plants.

That be a sign of aphids for me they eat them ime

 

[elephantSea]

Well supposedly people have actually already experimented with using trained bees to pollinate cannabis it is possible apparently i read that somewhere or maybe even a video on youtube i cant quite remember lol

trained bees? this is literally what bees do lol

 

[mudballs]

trained bees? this is literally what bees do lol

Training bees to prefer certain flower scents boosts seed production

 

[mudballs]

 

[conor c]

trained bees? this is literally what bees do lol

Yes but cannabis is wind pollinated normally not just by insects hence them being trained to prefer certain pollen sources over others like mudballs said

 

[Weedvin]

I have a friend in Toronto and she planted some seeds this year.
One of her plants was a male and she was impressed with all the pretty flowers.
She did not know it was a male.
She also commented that she had never before seen so many bees around a flowering plant before.

Have others noticed the same thing?
Do bees like cannabis pollen?

Yes, but they forget where the hive is