Nectar flows, blooms, high pollen counts and honeybee foragers are waning like a summer sunset. Yes, the Goldenrod flow is on now, but at its close the only significant honeybee plant will be asters. You can try to extend blooms and nectar flow by planting a garden full of buckwheat like I did, but the frost will still come and there is nothing me or the honeybees can do about it. So I will enjoy each happy, buzzing honeybee day we have until frost does come! Below are some pictures of honeybee plants and honeybee foragers at work.
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| Honeybee forager on Rose a Sharon bloom. |
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| Multiple honey bee foragers collecting nectar and pollen from Sunflower |
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| Honeybee forager on Sunflower |
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| An old Honeybee forager, look at her frayed and torn wings. |
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| Honeybee in flight |
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| Honeybee forager with load of pollen from Ragweed |
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| How can you not love this little darling with her face full of pollen?! She is serious about her work! Loaded down and time to go back to the hive. Ragweed plant. |
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| Ragweed and Goldenrod in the forefront. Not where you want to be if you have seasonal allergies. |
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| Honeybee forager on Ragweed. |
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| Some of my hives surrounded by Goldenrod! |
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| Honeybee Heaven. Loosestrife, Goldenrod, Jewelweed, Joe Pye weed all along a creek 20 feet from my apiary. |
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| Cosmos. |
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| Goldenrod, Jewelweed and Loosestrife. |
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