Honey plants for bees or honey plants around the apiary

Honey plants for bees

Honey plants or honey plants, honey plants are plants from the flowers of which bees collect nectar. Honey plants are the basis of a good honey collection. A beekeeper can have an unlimited number of bee colonies, he can use the latest technology for caring for bees, a beekeeper can use the newest and most progressive technologies for caring for bees, but a beekeeper will not be able to collect more honey than the honey base of the apiary allows him, namely the number and quality of honey plants around his apiary, within the radius of the productive flight of bees. Therefore, if a beekeeper wants to get a good honey collection, he must know: what honey plants grow around his apiary and continuously improve the honey base of the apiary, planting the best honey plants for bees.

To improve the honey base, the beekeeper must know well which honey plants are the best honey plants and give the most nectar, and also know the period when honey plants bloom and not allow time gaps to occur between the flowering of one honey plant and the flowering of another honey plant.
During the period when time intervals occur between the flowering of honey plants, bees stop bringing nectar to the hive, the so-called non-bribery period begins during which the queen stops laying eggs, the non-bribery period is one of the factors when the family begins to prepare for swarming and stops working.


Therefore, the beekeeper must fill the non-bribery period with honey plants and only the best honey plants. For proper planning and management of the honey base of the apiary, the beekeeper must know - the flowering period of honey plants, know the description of honey plants, know the honey productivity of honey plants, know what they look like during the flowering period, know the features of the secretion of nectar by flowers of honey plants and how the influence of weather conditions will affect the flowering of honey plants and their nectar productivity.

Everything that a beekeeper needs to know about honey plants can be found on the pages of our website. Each article about a honey plant contains a description of honey plants, honey productivity of honey plants, special conditions affecting the honey productivity of honey plants are indicated, honey plants are given photos with names, features of how to organize pollination of plants by honey bees are indicated.

  • What are honey plants and what types of honey plants are there
  • Types of honey plants
  • The best honey plants for the main honey flow
  • Division of honey plants by flowering period
  • Division of honey plants by types of honey plants
  • Division of honey plants by location in the phytocenosis
  • Honey plants of different natural and climatic zones
  • Honey plants for bees around the apiary

 

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