date:May 29, 2012
The six weeks of bad weather will particularly affect apples because it coincided with the time when apple blossom is usually pollinated, experts warned.
John Howat, secretary of the Bee Farmers Association of the UK, blamed theunprecedentedpattern of a very warm March followed by an unrelentingly bad April and first three weeks of May.
The very early warm March weather meant the bees were doing a grand job on the blossom that was out pear, cherry, plum, dandelion, and early rape most things