"The smell of Honey is in the air."
...got a yarn about that, read on :-))
Soooo...attached hopefully is the purple weed I was on about, a new one on me, it is still going hard
with new brackets clustered all over so it should last a while. Funnily enough there were no bees seen
working it but it was a bit late in my day by the time I got to grab some. Both colonies own significant
deposits of what I assume are it's pollen.
Long have I maintained bees are like mossies in that they are everywhere at all times just that they are
not so obvious, particularly scouts.
Today I was reminded of the evidence of truth in that.
In contrast to any of that I am a bugger for names, actually a tad dyslexic I reckon, buuut I do fancy
myself as a somewhat amateur horticulturalist specialising on those 'harder' plants to propagate, the
ones which require grafting or marcotting to get a pup out of.
Soooo today I had some grafts to do around the apiary (5 acres), and in the process what happened
flicked a memory of what power melted (ing) old comb has for bees.
Grafts set I heated up my brew and began painting the tapes, within 30secs I had 4 bees in tow.
Another 20minutes or so in finishing up I had the better part of 50+ hitting on me for a handout!
This is not new to me as it happens often buuut it triggered the memory of the lengths some go to
in building apparatus to attract bees. Not all were my bees as those are bright golden yellow and
hairy, and among this crowd were well dark bees of differing sizes.
So, when it is known there are flows on all around - "the smell of honey is in the air" - yet these
scouts are straight onto my brew!!
That alone has to illustrate the attractant power of fresh laid old wax, yeh?
Bill
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