The nectar sources from large cultivated fields of blooming apples, cherries, canola, melons, sun flowers, clover etc. are of benefit to a bee keeper who is willing to travel with his hives throughout the …

Foragers scout the landscape for floral resources looking for pollen and nectar. Pollen and nectar provide a wide array of vital macro and micronutrients that honey bees need.

Nectar and pollen are the primary food resources collected by honey bees. Nutritional needs change as honey bees develop. Supplemental nutrition can be provided to colonies through direct feeding during …

Pollen is mixed with nectar and bee secretions to produce “bee bread,” which goes through lactic acid fermentation. Rearing one larva requires 25–37.5 mg protein, equivalent to 125–187.5 mg pollen.

A female large carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) slits the corolla base of a trumpet vine (Tecoma stans) gaining access to nectar otherwise unavailable with its relatively short mouthparts.

Red Maple and Redbud (Cercis spp.) Early nectar & pollen source. WHAT DO BEES NEED? QUESTIONS?

Bees collect nectar and pollen from many different plant species, but only a few of these plants grow in enough profusion and produce enough nectar that a surplus of honey may be harvested (Figure 19).