Honey bees and plants bene
fit each other in a special way.
Many flowering plants provide
nectar and pollen for honey
bees. In turn, bees pollinate our
commercial fruits, vegetables,
and garden plants enabling
them to produce fruit like
apples, cantaloupe, watermelon
and others. Poor pollination
causes poor yields and mis
shapen fruit.
As the Fall temperatures
drop below 60° during the day,
bees become inactive. A single
hone bee makes 12 to 15 visits
per day to flowers. Bees collect
pollen and or nectar from a wide
variety of plants included honey
suckle, clover, and buckwheats.
Pollen and water are essen
tial to bees. Pollen is their only
natural source of protein.
Without it, colonies could not
produce new bees. The hive
would eventually die. Nectar is
the carbohydrate portion of the
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honey bee's food and is the raw
material of honey.
A beginning beekeeper might
ask, what crops or plants specif
ically attract honey bees? In
Pennsylvania beekeepers are
largely dependent on cultivated
crops grown for other purposes
or on wild plants. For example, a
vegetable grower gains 25-50%
higher yields with bee colonies
brought to fields of squash,
cucumbers, melons, pumpkins
or gourds.
Under certain conditions,
gardeners plants good honey
plants in their home landscapes
to maximize a bees activities. A
nectar plant should be no more
than 200 to 300 yards from the
colony.
Some nectar and pollen pro
ducing plants bloom well into
the fall. Honey color and flavor
are determined by the plant or
plants from which the bees col
lect nectar. To produce honey for
your table or the retail market,
bees must have access to an
abundance of plants. Plants
yielding large amounts of nectar
are preferred. Major nectar
sources include clover, sweet
clover, willow, raspberry, maple,
golden rod, dandelion and
alsikas clover. These sources
make a high quality, table grade
honey.
Many factors affect a plant's
nectar production including fer
tility, soil moisture, and acidity,
altitude, latitude, length of day,
the number of hours of sunlight
per day, and weather. Bees gath
ering nectar from several
sources, including a variety of
wildflowers, produce honey that
is usually dark and strong fla
vored honey. This is generally
the case with the fall nectar
flow, which usually yields a
dark, strong flavored honey.
However, this honey is usually
suitable for over-wintering bees.
Golden rod and asters are two
fall-blooming plants that may
yield such honey.
Observes bees closely to learn
what plants they prefer for col
lecting nectar and pollen. Keep
records of dates when these
plants bloom.
Late season bloomers in the
garden or in the wild that pro
vide nectar and/or pollen for
bees include: alyssum, anise
hyssop, aster, sedum 'autumn
joy', Joe-pye weed, borage, cat
mint, chives, garlic chives, gold-
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CATAWISSA (Columbia Co.)
—The annual Pumpkin Fall Festi
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from 10 am. until dusk, and on
Oct 10, from 9 am. until dusk.
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Leesport, PA 18533