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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: KeyLargoBees on February 02, 2017, 12:17:50 pm
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No one has started one yet......slackers ;-)
One of my girls on a Lignum Vitae tree here in Key Largo
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Hey, I resemble that remark. :cheesy:
We have maple in bloom in Jacksonville.
Jim
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One of my favorite threads. I can't wait to post my own pics.
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We are about 5 weeks ahead of schedule on our blooms. What about everyone else?
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maple, dandelions, kiss me at the gate, daffodils, and the oak trees are budding.
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maple, dandelions, kiss me at the gate, daffodils, and the oak trees are budding.
Have not seen the oaks. What variety are they?
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Red oaks mainly. I'm sure the white oaks are as well. Red oaks will have points on the end of the leaves, white oaks are rounded on the end. In each there are sub species or different looking ones.
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I am not sure where water oaks fit into it but I have not seen them putting out anything.
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Orange trees, wild plums, and Japanese magnolias
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Not sure what it is or if bees will go to it but it is popping up around my hives.
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Looks like henbit
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Lemon tree is in bloom. Had to pick the lemons off the trees. Saw Red Bud in bloom in Baker County.
Jim
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Not a great picture but it is of some blooming broccoli and it had one of the feral bees from around here on it. I can tell by the colour.
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Here we have red bud's, henbit, dandelions, plums, huckleberry, Japanese Magnolias, blooming and Laurel Cherry has bloom buds not open yet.
Hope they don't froze back.
Joe D
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How far south in Mississippi are you?
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Between Hattiesburg and Laurel, about 20 miles south of Hwy 84 in Laurel, about the same NE of Hattiesburg.
Joe D
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Between Hattiesburg and Laurel, about 20 miles south of Hwy 84 in Laurel, about the same NE of Hattiesburg.
Joe D
Just looked up your location compared to mine. It is roughly the same latitude but you seem to be a couple weeks ahead of us.
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Jusy noticed red oak in
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The Japanese Tuplips are blooming hard around here. Do bees work them?
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We have henbit and peach trees blooming.
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I just noticed some redbud's south of Montgomery
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I just noticed some redbud's south of Montgomery
and north towards Prattville
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Unfortunately I don't have any redbuds near my hives that I know of. Lots of hinbit though.
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Not sure what's blooming here in Birmingham, but I've got a little nectar being brought in and bright yellow and orange pollen. And they've started making drones.
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I know honeybees don't like them but they are blooming hard here
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Daffodils blooming in North Alabama. Do bees get nectar from them? They look a little long for them to get to the nectar.
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https://honeybeesuite.com/who-pollinates-the-daffodils/
From what I found not really.
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And they've started making drones
...oh crap..,
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Eastern NC dandelion, henbit, hazel, sugar maples, fruit trees including blueberries all starting to flower. Hives stacked with bees and brood drones already capped. Early this year!
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Saw clover blooming out around Ozark Alabama today. Red, white, and yellow
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I spotted maples blooming with others still have last years leaves on them. A couple oaks are in bloom along with wax myrtles just starting to bud. My hives are bringing in something, not sure of what but there is that wonderful smell of curing honey around the hives right now. Lots of yellow pollen on the truck every day.
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Cedar and Alder putting out pollen here.
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I jealous. The only thing around here that is blooming is a few small patches of chickweed.
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A little rosemary
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Something my mom calls oxalice. Came from my great grandmothers
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Yep, that's oxalis. Beautiful mound of it! Contains oxalic acid -- duh!, that's why the name. Has nice flowers. Gets better every year. I like the purple oxalis a lot.
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We have it all over the place. Great flower.
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Yesterday the bees were working my bird feeder, today the maple tree in my front yard. This may not be so good, it's mighty early up here.
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Not the greatest picture but it is one of my girls on a blueberry bloom
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Redbuds and Bradford pears blew up yesterday.
Suppose to be a hard freeze tonight so that will be the end of them. Been a wild weather roller coster here this spring, high in the 80's one day then the next it's high in the 40's
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Pear trees are in bloom in Baker County.
Jim
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Some kind of trees, not sure what kind, but the girls are coming in loaded with light grey/yellow pollen. Dandelions, pear is blooming, some peach, hyacinth.
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I have lots of henbit bees are not touching it. There is a small and even lower growing flower with four petals light purplish pink they are loving, that grows with the henbit. Lots of pollen coming in yesterday.
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My girl on a flower I planted for my mom in my expansion.
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My girl in a rosemary plant
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bw, I went to Auburn via I85 a couple of times last week. I saw a lot of white clover blooming and red as well. There's our sign..,
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Yep. I will probably super this week. It is getting heavier but I have been feeding. I am probably going in the hive today.
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bump
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Did not take a picture of all of this but I have seen my girls on Rosemary, wild blackberries, white clover, what I call a wild flower viola , and some planted plants all in the past few days.
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I stickied this thread at the top, replacing follow the bloom 2017.
:wink:
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Eastern NC lost the holly blooms and other sources with that last cold snap starting to smell like poplar & gum trees the past couple days bees are definitely flying a high line! All hives at gang buster levels!! ;)J
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In the pasture
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In a fallow garden spot. What flower is this?
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Forgive me for being in the north where the last of the snow piles melted a few days ago but so far I have hyacinth coming up but not blooming yet. Silver maples are starting to bloom however.
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Gallberry is just starting to create buds in. Baker County. Palmetto is developing buds in Duval County.
Jim
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I plant turnips as a Fall garden cover crop. The over wintered turnips grow to about 3 feet tall with a very fragrant flower. They bloom very early and the bees love them.
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I plant turnips as a Fall garden cover crop. The over wintered turnips grow to about 3 feet tall with a very fragrant flower. They bloom very early and the bees love them
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Tulip pillars blooming on MS Gulf coast
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Tulip poplars blooming on MS Gulf coast
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Holly bloomed again hard in eastern NC got 1 shallow full of holly honey of 3 of my hives!!
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Privet blooming, bees working it big time in NE Texas.
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Holly bloomed again hard in eastern NC got 1 shallow full of holly honey of 3 of my hives!!
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Only had pure holly honey once but it sure was good
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I have a holly tree in bloom and a Black Gum in bloom but most of the other tree of these same trees are not even close to budding.
Jim
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Im new here. Iowa the tree pods are just opening. 35 was the hi today and middle 20s tonight. Bees come in on Friday
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Lantana, roses, calla lilies.
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Bees on my late planted Berseem Clover
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Goldenrod blooming in Cloudland Canyon, (NW) Georgia. It's the small kind.
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Cabbage Palm is in Bloom in Jacksonville FL.
Jim
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What is cabbage palm?
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It is a cold tolerant palm that got its name because if you cut out the heart, the newest branch before it comes out, you can cook it and eat it and it tastes like cabbage. If you do this you kill the tree.
Jim
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cabbage.palm+picture&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&gfe_rd=cr&ei=DYFlWaOOOMmhhgbM6rX4Bg#gfe_rd=cr&imgrc=saoMzUhdtUJBeM:
Here is a picture.
Jim
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I'm just starting to see goldenrod bloom. Let the flow begin!
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Ten minutes ago I saw Goldenrod just starting to bloom in a creek bottom. This the earliest I ever remember, usually they start blooming about the first week in Sept. This is in northeast Texas, it looks like a long winter for the bees.
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Brazilian pepper is starting here
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Goldenrod blooming in Gettysburg
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Goldenrod is just starting to bud in my wife's wild area.
Jim
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The golden rain trees are in bloom here in N FL. Looking forward to seeing how the recent rains affect the fall flow. The spring flow seemed less productive than last year but it was so dry here.
This is my third year and have yet to smell the goldenrod being brought in. Maybe I'm just too far from it. ?
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The golden rain trees are in bloom here in N FL. Looking forward to seeing how the recent rains affect the fall flow. The spring flow seemed less productive than last year but it was so dry here.
This is my third year and have yet to smell the goldenrod being brought in. Maybe I'm just too far from it. ?
Bob,
Where you live is mostly residential. Not a lot of open land for Goldenrod to grow. On top of that you have a lot of Raintrees in your area. The bees will work the best source of nectar first.
Have you seen the Beesfest thread? Do you plan on attending it?
Jim
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Hi Jim,
Yes I saw the thread and I'm planning to be there but I hate to promise this early. I just came home from two months in VA, that trip wasn't planned until early July. That being said if you could use some extra hands around there to get ready put me on the list. Your farm sounds awesome and I'd love to see it!
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Bob,
That will bee great. Help will be appreciated.
Jim
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Here in central Louisiana we have all kinds of trees, flowers, weeds fruit trees blooming. The girls better get to work. I only have about a months worth of honey left in my hiding spot. :shocked:
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The maples started blooming in Central Va Feb 21st. There are some small trees with white blooms, but It don't know what they are.
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Since nothing is blooming here yet I guess it doesn't really affect me but shouldn't we start a 'Follow the Bloom 2018'?
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Good thinking.