This series of posts looks at different forage plants that bees use to source nectar, pollen or resin, from the everyday to the utterly unusual. Dandelions are typically in flower from spring to early summer and are a great source … Continued
Not only do bees forage and product their own food, they build their own homes – and make the materials to do it. The hexagonal cells of honeycomb and brood comb (where new bees are raised) are made of beeswax. … Continued
So how are the bees, you ask? Great question…in a word, challenging! The weather for Spring and Summer 2024 has been everything apart from (don’t say it…) snowy. The bees were slow to get out foraging, and that meant they … Continued