Trees For Bees

[Millet]

I found this earlier if anyone is interested, i did not think sycamore would be any good though.

http://www.riverofflowers.org/wild-city-blog/trees-feed-bees

 

[Fatbee]

Good find Millet.

My bees forage on sycamore a lot, especially when I have a year when there is less OSR around.

 

[Millet]

Its good to know Sycamore is of some use as there is a well established wood on the bees doorstep, my hive is where the yellow peg is the Sycamore wood is too the left.

 

[Fatbee]

Although if there is OSR out they will go to that instead

 

[madasafish]

http://tinyurl.com/juoofo5 is across the fields from us.

 

[B+.]

Although if there is OSR out they will go to that instead

Not necessarily Fatbee. I've seen bees flying over a field of osr to get to the hedgerows before....weird, but true!

 

[Millet]

Although if there is OSR out they will go to that instead

That's a shame as there's loads every second year at a stone throw.

 

[Millet]

http://tinyurl.com/juoofo5 is across the fields from us.

Theres one big tree not far away that the bees loved last year but i'm not sure what it is, i will have to get a picture.

 

[Swarm]

If they are anything like the Sycamores here, stand under them and listen

 

[Millet]

If they are anything like the Sycamores here, stand under them and listen

I stood under the unidentified tree last year and the noise was a dead give away even before i spotted the bees/wasps and blue bottles.

 

[Erichalfbee]

If they are anything like the Sycamores here, stand under them and listen

Yep!!!!!!
Except last year when the wind blew every last blossom off and left the trees looking like something in a nuclear drought

LIMES....bees like limes

 

[deanrpwaacs]

Its good to know Sycamore is of some use as there is a well established wood on the bees doorstep, my hive is where the yellow peg is the Sycamore wood is too the left.

There is a little map thing on guugle that gives you a 3 mile radius from a point on the map . Helps to see what else they may be going to . This year i have 6 fields of osr over the hedge

 

[snelgrove]

I find they work the rape mostly but they still forage on dandelion, sycamore and horse chestnut. Wild garlic is another visited plant in spring along with hawthorn ect.

 

[Millet]

Wild Garlic is on my to do list, plenty of hawthorn though.

 

[snelgrove]

Wild Garlic is on my to do list, plenty of hawthorn though.

above 70 degrees for hawthorn I believe

 

[Millet]

I don't have a clue or did not have a clue what temperature it flowers at,

 

[snelgrove]

I don't have a clue or did not have a clue what temperature it flowers at,

secretes nectar at 70 degrees is what I meant mate

 

[Millet]

There is a little map thing on guugle that gives you a 3 mile radius from a point on the map . Helps to see what else they may be going to . This year i have 6 fields of osr over the hedge

I can get that on Google earth, but its more accurate for me when i go on foot.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Ah......now Hawthorn, there's the thing.
You get Hawthorn years and old beekeepers go all misty eyed about them.
Some years you get lots of blossom and strangely lots of haws in the autumn but no real flow. Other years when the weather is just right the May scents the fields and you can't walk there without being knocked out by the heady aroma: the bees are all over it. The honey is dark and nutty and just...........................................wonderful.

 

[snelgrove]

Ah......now Hawthorn, there's the thing.
You get Hawthorn years and old beekeepers go all misty eyed about them.
Some years you get lots of blossom and strangely lots of haws in the autumn but no real flow. Other years when the weather is just right the May scents the fields and you can't walk there without being knocked out by the heady aroma: the bees are all over it. The honey is dark and nutty and just...........................................wonderful.

must be honest don't think I have seen honeybees on hawthorn, or elderberry . the rape is available probably why