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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 11771" data-attributes="member: 13">Apple flowering should have been well over by the time frame you suggest. However bees can still be exposed to sprays used if they are visiting flowering weeds below the trees and spray drifts onto them.Orchards where I have bees the orchardist does not spray when the trees are in flower, plus mows under the trees which keeps flowers under the trees to a minimum. So although my heart is sometimes in my mouth when I see the misting machine driving around, no perceptible harm seems to result.Some fungicides are harmful to bees, some are not.There is only one place you can enquire what sprays were used, and that would be the orchardist.Here is an easy read article about the effects of fungicides on bees[URL unfurl="true"]https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Fungicide_Regular_Factsheet_Final_Web.pdf[/URL]</blockquote>

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