What's flowering as forage in your area

[jenkinsbrynmair]

definitely not a knotweed in either though.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Euphorbia Griffithii Fireglow

I reckon you're right; spring shoots are bright red and it has lovely leaf colour in late summer; easy to propagate.

 

[drex]

Aargh! Just had a walk round fields near to apiary and the rape is well in flower. Only two of my colonies likely to be at a strength to make use of it. Gets earlier every year.

 

[Beefriendly]

Aargh! Just had a walk round fields near to apiary and the rape is well in flower. Only two of my colonies likely to be at a strength to make use of it. Gets earlier every year.

You need to move North young man....the two (now rare) fields of OSR I can find around me are not even 6 inches high yet.
Hazel pollen coming in nicely today on the first decent flying day we have this year and more forecast for this coming week.......hopefully colonies should be strong and ready when it does flower.

 

[drex]

Thanks for the " young". Down here have already had plenty of flying days

 

[Wingy]

Blackthorn been in flower for 2 weeks, dandelions, willow and OSR just started,
Glad to say all 10 hives & my Nuc have come through winter and only 2 hives looking a bit weak all taking advantage of what’s on offer

 

[Swarm]

So much for north/south divide, no Dandelions here. Blackthorn yet to open, Lesser Celandines are flowering.

 

[Ian123]

The rape around me is about a foot high so some way off and good job to. Plenty of laurel now out.

 

[drex]

My pollen sub came today, so I put it on to try to stimulate my nucs, which are not looking good. The one that was dwindling had only a few bees in, but queen was there, sucking on some fondant, but did not look good. I put her in a cage with a smear of honey and introduced her to the drone layer colony, which had a good number of bees, but no queen now that I could find.

 

[masterBK]

You might probably find the introduced queen will be rejected in favour of resident drone laying queen or alternatively laying workers.

 

[drex]

I know the chances are slim but there was nothing to lose. One infertile queen of no use and one poorly queen who might just pick up when surrounded by a decent number of workers. No brainer

 

[masterBK]

Why not simply swap the positions of the two so the weak one with the queen gets some of the strength from the drone laying colony.

 

[drex]

Done that with some of my production colonies, however the weak queen had about 10 bees in with her, so my course of action seemed the sensible one, even if a long shot - she did not look great, and the other nuc had only drone brood in a small amount

 

[user 819]

My pair of colonies as a Network rail ROC were busy on the Cherry Blossom flowering very nicely here within the grounds/site compound, chill breeze but warm bright sun as well. Also three or Four differing pollens coming in.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Foraging on lugwort right now.

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[Newbeeneil]

Saw my first dandelions today.

 

[Swarm]

Foraging on lugwort right now.

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Lovely.
Great pics, Mark.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Lovely.
Great pics, Mark.

This phone does take a better picture,
First season I've noticed the girls collecting Nectar from lugwort.
There's a lot around this year.. Funny enough it's mainly growing where the willowherb and hb grow later in the season.

 

[Swarm]

Can't say I've ever seen it before but it looks a pretty plant.

.......Almost as pretty as those bees.

 

[masterBK]

Never heard of lugwort. Is lungwort another name for the same plant (Pulmonaria sp) which is, I belive, is in the same family as Borage?