Most Honeybees Really Love Colorful Flowering Trees
Arrival
Central Florida provides a good environment for growing quite a few types of flowering trees and our rural area offers plenty of land for plant nurseries. It’s not surprising, then, that there are quite a few nurseries near where I live. One of them has a wonderful selection of flowering trees, and I couldn’t help but stop by there one day when I was out running errands. I didn’t buy…
Many flowers are beginning to wind down in late summer but not so the Rudbeckia. This dense mass planting is just too good to be true and today the honey bees were lined up around the block. The days are getting noticeably shorter and there's not much time left to fill up the hive with provisions. Too soon the air will grow cold and all these lovely flowers will be gone.
Honey Bees are Among the Beautiful Fall Pollinators That Love Tamarisk
Honey Bees are Among the Beautiful Fall Pollinators That Love Tamarisk shows a honey bee flying into a bunch of tamarisk flowers. Honey bees were among a plethora of insects enjoying and pollinating the flowers.
In Coming
Recently, when I went out for a hike, I found this wonderful patch of tamarisk flowers not far from my house. It was loaded with pollinators of all sizes and shapes. I could probably have spent the entire day right there just shooting pics of wasps, bees, and all manner of other insects. Among the insects that the flowers had attracted were quite a few honey bees (Apis mellifera). They…