Late Spring Wildflowers

All around our local area, patches of late season wildflowers can still be seen, including Mustard wildflowers, yellow Canola and yellow Star Thistle wildflowers, all of which are excellent pollen and nectar sources for honey bees.

Photos: Yellow Canola wildflowers in out area are a great source of pollen (protein) and nectar (which bees use to make honey).

This is great news for our bee hives, which are all back in our main bee yard in east Clovis. On Memorial Day weekend we had our first honey harvest of the year, and put back the honey boxes on the hives. With the late spring wildflowers, the bees are now filling the boxes back up with fresh honey from the wildflowers. We hope to have another honey harvest possibly some time in July.

Photo: The “Hallelujah” hive booming with bees, as they have a plentiful source of food with the late spring wildflowers.

Stay tuned in the following weeks as we share about some of the summer bee keeping activities around our bee yard.

Blessings,

Jeff