April is a wonderful month for honey bees and gardeners alike. Honey bees are working at full speed to collect pollen and nectar to fill up their food storage area. Gardeners are busy taking care of plants and seeing that everything has all the tender loving care it needs.
Hopefully April's showers won't keep the bees from collecting nectar and pollen from these plants.
Alpine Rhododendron - Nectar
Alpine Violet - Nectar
Black Haw Viburnum - Nectar
Black Currant - Nectar, Pollen and Honeydew
Blue Rhododendron - Nectar
Catclaw Acacia - Nectar and Pollen
Common Wallflower - N
ectar and Pollen
Darwin's Barberry - Nectar and Pollen
Dwarf Rhododendron - Nectar
Eichlerian Tulip - Pollen
Evergreen Clematis - Pollen
Garland Flower Daphne - Nectar and Pollen
Hedge Barberry - Nectar and Pollen
Japanese Flowering Crabapple - Nectar and Pollen
Korean spice Viburnum - Nectar and Pollen
Lady Tulip - Pollen
Little-leaf Lilac - Nectar and Pollen
Marsh Blue Violet - Nectar
Magaellan Barberry - Nectar and Pollen
Ohio Buckeye - Nectar
Orange King Barberry - Nectar and Pollen
Pansy - Nectar
Pepper Vine - Nectar
Preston
Lilac - Nectar and Pollen
Prickly Pear Cactus - Nectar, Pollen and Honeydew
Princeps Tulip - Pollen
Purple Lily Magnolia - Pollen
Red Currant - Nectar, Pollen and Honeydew
Sea Grape - Nectar
Siberian Wallflower - Nectar and Pollen
Spanish Heath - Nectar and Pollen
Stork’s Bill - Nectar
Sweet Violet - Nectar
Tarda Tulip - Pollen
Tea Olive - Nectar and Pollen
Unicum Tulip - Pollen
White Tupelo - Nectar
Yakushima Rhododendron - Nectar
With the abundance of food April brings, honey bees will be less aggressive than they have been during the last two months. However, they will be starting to swarm as a natural method of reproduction, so keep an eye out.
Beekeepers who produce a unique honey called wildflower honey may be collecting some of the extra honey from the honey supers.
More April plants for honey bees can be found here.
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