Garden beekeepers: What are your bees foraging on?

[blackbrood]

not sure really. I have rocket in my garden and that is full of flowers. looking at this pollen chart it says mustard is orange and mustard and rocket are I believe in the same plant family. Although they are not going on my rocket plants

 

[freethorpe bees]

Thanks for that blackbrood - unfortunately I think mine looks like ivy - oh no!!!

 

[blackbrood]

not sure what the pollen is. there is wild rocket in flower at the moment and that is in the same family as the mustard plant. The mustard plant produces orange pollen. so might be rocket pollen if it produces orange pollen. could be lots of things.

 

[Mickby]

Feeding on fallen plums about 10m from hives.

 

[Cazza]

Just an update:
My bees are still going nuts for ivy but also collecting from Eleagnus Ebbingei ( which has a delicious custard smell) and Salvia Guaranitica Blue Ensign.
Anybody got anything else?
Cazza

 

[victor meldrew]

Michaelmas daisies .

John Wilkinson

 

[Silly Bee]

Ivy.

A house just outside the alottment is covered in it.

 

[Bee-Key-Pur]

Ivy and nothing but Ivy...

 

[AMAE]

Ivy
Dandelion (neighbouring field is yellow with them)
Michaelmas daisy

Happy bees

 

[tonybloke]

seen a couple of bees on Nerines in the garden.

 

[richardbees]

Feeding on fallen plums about 10m from hives.

...sure they're not wasps?

 

[Cazza]

Ivy has finished here (Suffolk), bees still working the eleagnus and also Strawberry tree (Arbutus Unedo.) Anything else I can plant for late pollen/nectar?
Cazza

 

[tonybloke]

still busy in the east

this morning, about 11.15,
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NcpnsuLgnM[/ame]

 

[iball]

After a few days of inactivity my bees are very busy today bringing lots of pollen in. There's at least two types, a creamy colour which I'm assuming is ivy and a richer more orangey coloured pollen.

 

[hedgerow pete]

there are a few brassicas still flowering at the allotments near me and some of the rough allotment plots like mine the odd flower on the go here and there, most of my lot seem to be flying off the plots to some where else to collect , but cant see where they are going at the moment

 

[madasafish]

Lots of bright yellow pollen here.

HB all dead after recent frosts.

 

[psafloyd]

Any of you out there with bee hives in your garden can you please tell me what your little beavers (oops sorry bees!) are using in and around your garden.
I am attempting to make a list to help gardeners to plant honey bee friendly plants Most of the plants that are flagged as bee and butterfly friendly are for bumble bees.
I will need to know your soil type and the region where you live please!
Thanks
Louise

Mine were on the buddleia before it finished flowering, but there is also a good amount of ivy around the perimeter of the site and I know they were on the stuff nearerst the hive.
Whatever they are harvesting, they were coming in last week with their pockets full to busting with bright yellow pollen.

 

[psafloyd]

Any of you out there with bee hives in your garden can you please tell me what your little beavers (oops sorry bees!) are using in and around your garden.
I am attempting to make a list to help gardeners to plant honey bee friendly plants Most of the plants that are flagged as bee and butterfly friendly are for bumble bees.
I will need to know your soil type and the region where you live please!
Thanks
Louise

Mine were on the buddleia before it finished flowering, but there is also a good amount of ivy around the perimeter of the site and I know they were on the stuff nearerst the hive.
Whatever they are harvesting, they were coming in last week with their pockets full to busting with bright yellow pollen.
Oh, and the soil is all clay, to greater or lesser extents.

 

[Queens59]

Still bringing in ivy pollen, and landing so heavily you can hear the thump!

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Very jealous of those of you who can monitor your girls during the day - its dark when I leave and dark when I return so totally reliant on nice weekend weather to watch them