LimeWatch UK

[Swarm]

Just been to monticute house (national trust) the biggest avenue of the biggest lime trees I have ever seen and they don't have bees on the site. Just a bit too far away for me to take them nearby but wow, there must be hundreds of pounds of honey. All the conditions are right this year and it is right on the verge of opening!

Go on, you know you want to

 

[enrico]

I am itching to but ....... 45 mins travelling each way......maybe next year when my hives are hopefully stronger!

 

[Swarm]

How about one hive, a few supers, fingers crossed and return in a fortnight?

 

[Roola]

Just been to monticute house (national trust) the biggest avenue of the biggest lime trees I have ever seen and they don't have bees on the site. Just a bit too far away for me to take them nearby but wow, there must be hundreds of pounds of honey. All the conditions are right this year and it is right on the verge of opening!

yes... end of this week looking hot and humid... may just hit the right time fingers crossed,

 

[masterBK]

Often very large and old lime trees don't yield much. I had bees in Clumber park (Notts) many years ago and got very litttle honey from probably the UKs (and europes) longest lime avenue (until someone on here tells me of a bigger one) .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardeni...onal-Trusts-top-six-tree-avenues.html?image=3

 

[enrico]

Often very large and old lime trees don't yield much. I had bees in Clumber park (Notts) many years ago and got very litttle honey from probably the UKs (and europes) longest lime avenue (until someone on here tells me of a bigger one) .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardeni...onal-Trusts-top-six-tree-avenues.html?image=3

That makes me feel better....thanks!

 

[B+.]

Often very large and old lime trees don't yield much.

I look after a couple of 14*12s for a lady who has a lime tree in her garden. I'm not sure how old it is, but, it's pretty old. The bees are all over it when it's in flower.

 

[Stedic]

Just moved house and we now have a lovely old lime tree on the edge of the garden. Don't have any hives at home and mine are probably too far away this year, but at least I'll be able to see when it flowers. Perhaps I can convince the boss to let me move a hive in for next summer.

 

[Fritillary]

I just hope we get rain - a little of the right sort of rain!... before the flowers open. At the moment everything here is so dry I think we have more of a June drought than June gap.

 

[thibault]

Very dry here as well

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[SDM]

I look after a couple of 14*12s for a lady who has a lime tree in her garden. I'm not sure how old it is, but, it's pretty old. The bees are all over it when it's in flower.

Lime are tricky beggars, their nectar is laced with caffeine which gets bees coming back to the flowers even when they're giving up little or no nectar.
The flowers scent also mimics bumblebees pheromones for recruitment to a food source. You can find piles of dead bumbles under lime at the end of flowering, starved because there was no nectar.
Like I said, tricky beggars.

 

[enrico]

Lime are tricky beggars, their nectar is laced with caffeine which gets bees coming back to the flowers even when they're giving up little or no nectar.
The flowers scent also mimics bumblebees pheromones for recruitment to a food source. You can find piles of dead bumbles under lime at the end of flowering, starved because there was no nectar.
Like I said, tricky beggars.

See you read the Saturday Telegraph too!!!!!

 

[madasafish]

See you read the Saturday Telegraph too!!!!!

Saturday Telegraph... me too...

 

[SDM]

See you read the Saturday Telegraph too!!!!!

And I've read "A sting in the tale"

 

[thorn]

The limes are just about to burst into flower in the park opposite my colonies and, hallelujah, it’s been raining gently for the last hour, and is showing no sign of stopping.

 

[enrico]

Ours have opened today. No rain for days, humidity gone, not a bee on them.......damn! Found another four trees a few hundred yards away that I hadn't seen before. No bees on them either! Another missed year of lime..,.huh!
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[Fritillary]

Here too - no rain, beyond a mere dribble early on Saturday.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Lime are tricky beggars, their nectar is laced with caffeine which gets bees coming back to the flowers even when they're giving up little or no nectar.
The flowers scent also mimics bumblebees pheromones for recruitment to a food source. You can find piles of dead bumbles under lime at the end of flowering, starved because there was no nectar.
Like I said, tricky beggars.

And I thought that Lime could be narcotic which is why Bumblebees fell off the flowers. Seems strange that a bee would persist in an empty flower till it died of starvation

 

[Amari]

Here too - no rain, beyond a mere dribble early on Saturday.

Dry as a bone here too - lawn already brown - and this after the wettest winter I can remember, as judged by water level in a local pond and our garden well.
Row of ten limes adjacent to my apiary still in bud.

 

[enrico]

Dry as a bone here too - lawn already brown - and this after the wettest winter I can remember, as judged by water level in a local pond and our garden well.
Row of ten limes adjacent to my apiary still in bud.

I couldn't have done without our well..., I pumpmthe water out for the garden, thanks to the Victorians. On metered water so saves me a fortune!
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