Most Honeybees Really Love Colorful Flowering Trees
Central Florida provides a good environment for growing quite a few types of flowering trees and our rural area offers plenty of land for plant nurseries. It’s not surprising, then, that there are quite a few nurseries near where I live. One of them has a wonderful selection of flowering trees, and I couldn’t help but stop by there one day when I was out running errands. I didn’t buy anything (although I was tempted), but I enjoyed walking around, looking at all the various colors and sizes of flowers, and, of course, watching all the pollinators that the flowers attract. Whenever I go anyplace that may have flowers, I always bring my camera, so I took quite a few photos. There were a lot of western honey bees (Apis mellifera) which have a special place in my heart, so I was happy to capture this photo of one just as it arrived to feast on the flowers of a chaste tree.
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