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A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
Bees look for flowers that have brightly colored petals, have a sweet or minty fragrance, are symmetrical, bloom in the daytime, and offer lots of pollen and nectar on which to feed.
The plants listed below are plants that would grow in USDA Hardiness zone 5. A good predictor for when a plant will bloom and produce pollen is a calculation of the growing degree days. The color of pollen below indicates the color as it appears when the pollen arrives at the beehive.
Honey flow is a term used by beekeepers indicating that one or more major nectar sources are in bloom and the weather is favorable for bees to fly and collect the nectar in abundance. The higher northern and southern latitudes with their longer summer day time hours can be of considerable benefit for honey production.
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All the plants of this family are found mostly in the tropics or subtropics. Campsis radicans Seem. (= Bignonia radicans, or Tecoma radicans) Catalpa bignonioides Walter; Catalpa speciosa Warder ex Engelm. Cybistax antisyphilitica Mart. Handroanthus albus; Handroanthus impetiginosus; Jacaranda brasiliana Pers. Jacaranda caroba Hort. ex Lem.
However, Australian native bees are able to detect and avoid flowers harbouring crab spiders despite the fact that they are initially attracted to them. Diaea evanida spiders can generate colour contrasts for bees’ individual preferences, but T. carbonaria did not show any preference for any of the contrasts.
The creamy colored flowers of this common tree are very attractive to bees. Light amber Kiawe Prosopsis pallida, see Mesquite Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) Japan, elsewhere where the plant is naturalised: Bee colonies may forage on kudzu flowers when there is a drought of nectar from other flower sources.