Red pollen?

[Beauhawk]

So the bees are on the rape (yellow pollen) Hawthorne (white pollen) and I saw both these going in this morning. My question is what are the candidates for the red/burgundy coloured pollen that has just started going in?

 

[beebreeder]

Definetely horse chestnut (conker trees) the combs can look like they are bleeding the colour is so strong

 

[Winker]

chestnut trees

 

[beeno]

Hi all,
What is the grass green colour then since we are at it!

 

[loo1]

conker trees

 

[Beauhawk]

Thanks all.

 

[ellypatt]

Grass green = sycamore?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Although a bit early - meadowsweet? or at a push (green - ish pollen) holly

 

[BeeJayBee]

Could green pollen be crab apple, oak or sycamore? There's a chart at Lancaster Beekeepers http://www.lancaster-beekeepers.org.uk/index.php/forage-froup/pollen-colour

 

[enrico]

Sycamore. My bees are all over it.

 

[Shabro]

Funny I have some right next to a sycamore tree and they aren't touching it

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[dclewis]

The sycamores are buzzing here, but not with my bees, the bumbles have have a field day.

 

[enrico]

Not all sycamores seem to give off nectar. They seem to go in bi or tri annual nectar flows. I have no idea why, all I know that is when my bees have been on a tree I get thousands of little ones the following spring and that is the downside! Different one buzzing this year to last year, but all have flowers!