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Finally got a new video done this week. This one is about three families of native trees that bloom early and give our native bees and honey bees a kickstart on their brood production. I shot this video with a new camera, please let me know what you think of the video quality.
Hope you find it interesting!
Anthony
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817486 03/10/2311:29 AM03/10/2311:29 AM
Warrior - absolutely. Our main honey flow here is tulip poplar and black locust with a little blackberry thrown in. If we have dry weather when the poplar blooms those supers fill up fast.
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817809 03/10/2308:17 PM03/10/2308:17 PM
Warrior - absolutely. Our main honey flow here is tulip poplar and black locust with a little blackberry thrown in. If we have dry weather when the poplar blooms those supers fill up fast.
Great video as usual.My cousin keeps Mason Bees.He says because they come out earlier than the Honey Bees for early bloom pollination.My Sister keeps Honey Bees.I don't know too much about either one.I just know I get free Honey.
Last edited by upstateNY; 03/10/2308:17 PM.
the wheels of the gods turn very slowly
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817818 03/10/2308:32 PM03/10/2308:32 PM
Western NC has experienced the warmest first 69 days of a year since records have been kept. Our commercial peach growers are facing three nights of high 20s next week. They say apples will be OK as they bloom later.
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817851 03/10/2309:20 PM03/10/2309:20 PM
Oreamnos - I am sitting within 5 feet of about 500 copies of that book as I type this - my wife wrote it!
Charles - its going to be a rough year for peaches - some of the trees didn't get enough chill hours to set buds, and the ones that did are likely to freeze out.
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817872 03/10/2309:43 PM03/10/2309:43 PM
Oreamnos - I am sitting within 5 feet of about 500 copies of that book as I type this - my wife wrote it!
Charles - its going to be a rough year for peaches - some of the trees didn't get enough chill hours to set buds, and the ones that did are likely to freeze out.
Oh wow! Small world haha. I got that book this year. It's fantastic!
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817922 03/10/2310:44 PM03/10/2310:44 PM
Good job as I for one mark all the (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) willows for cutting for planters. Most bee keepers here put their hives close to willow clumps for the first pollen. Always seems the elm and maples bloom and 80F weather finishes the pollen time fast here
Could not see the difference in you clip with the new camera
Re: Early Blooming Trees Bees Use - Video
[Re: AnthonyT]
#7817952 03/10/2311:21 PM03/10/2311:21 PM
Just loved your video, Anthony. Honeybees are my favorite insect. They make the world go round.
I have planted several varieties of maples , including Amure maple, whos blooms just buzz in early spring , full of bees from neighbors hives. My choke cherry shrubs , that smell like honey , do the same for the bees. Mountain ash, high bush cranberry, service berry, hawthorn , syringa, Siberian peashrub, all help in their bloom stages.
Every place I’ve lived, first thing I do is plant trees and shrubs for bees and birds.