Can almost smell those from here.Some of the lime trees nearby are starting to flower. Hopefully the conditions will be right for a good flow. The hives were certainly super busy first thing today.
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Can almost smell those from here.Some of the lime trees nearby are starting to flower. Hopefully the conditions will be right for a good flow. The hives were certainly super busy first thing today.
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Yea plenty sprouting around here by the Aeron and in ditches. Cattle love it but they leave enough for the beesSpotted some Himalayan balsalm flowering today!
The ones here had incredible flowering last season and now, in winter here, with fantastic berry set, are providing good forage for all sorts of birds including our Green Rosella.I love cotoneaster. I really must try to propagate some cuttings from ours.
James
it makes the bees sickIt’s a shame about buttercups being ignored wet fields here full of them anyone know why?
Honyebees never seem to go for buttercups ...presumably not a high value in terms of yield vs energy expended. They are very clever when it comes to how much work they do for what return ... I suppose they have had a few millennia to get their work/life balance right !It’s a shame about buttercups being ignored wet fields here full of them anyone know why? Flower shape looks shallow enough can see lots of pollen in the flowers as well
Here we go ... Post #19 .... always and answer in here somewhere - so many experts !Honyebees never seem to go for buttercups ...presumably not a high value in terms of yield vs energy expended. They are very clever when it comes to how much work they do for what return ... I suppose they have had a few millennia to get their work/life balance right !
Yes. Don’t forget to say thatI should have said that this forum is very enjoyable and extremely informative
as I said - it makes them sickHere we go ... Post #19 .... always and answer in here somewhere - so many experts !
https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/bees-and-buttercups.17691/
Phacelia …. I’ve only had bomblers so far on mine ! Was beginning to wonder if I’d got it wrong … I have seen them on my red roses this year tho which I’ve not noticed beforeNo June gap here this year,from dandilion to maple and sycamore and horse chestnut then to hawthorn and as it went over they moved on to wild raspberries cabbage palm, phacelia and now the blackberries are starting, apiary sounds like a train, first combs of spring honey are being sealed. So far so good.
I know that too much buttercup is toxic to farm animals bit how do you say it makes bees sick?it makes the bees sick
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