Happenings in the insect world
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: January 12, 2012
If you let your bok choy go to seed, what a treat for the honey bees.
The mild unseasonable weather and blooming bok choy--perfect for foraging honey bees searching for food in January.
Mother Nature may fool them. Bok choy does not.
Bok choy (Brassica rapa chinensis), also known as Chinese cabbage, is a East Asian leafy vegetable. In Cantonese, bok choy means "white vegetable."
In bee language, it means "let's forage."
Check out the yellow pollen and the newness of the bees!
Can spring be far behind?
Honey bee foraging on a blooming bok choy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a wrap! Honey bee all wrapped up in a bok choy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Comments:
by Heidi Napier
on January 14, 2012 at 9:52 PM
Cool! My Chinese Cabbage is bolting, but now I don't feel so bad if it gives the bees something to eat. Haven't seen any bees at the flowers though.......
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by Kathy Keatley Garvey
on January 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM
Bees love the blossoms! In the winter months, there's not much to eat...
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