ROADSIDE FORAGE

Out in the country roadside flowers can be a valuable forage resource for your honey bees.  Now if we could just get the road crews to stop mowing them down!

                                     Daylilies; actually I've never seen the bees working them

 Bird'sfoot trefoil; a perennial legume; bees love it.  Planted for erosion control along new roads

                                               Queen Anne's Lace; never seen a bee on it

                                      Crown vetch; a perennial legume often planted on roadsides

                                                                     Common thistle

                        Hairy vetch; a perennial; however only worked by bumble bees; not honey bees

                              Yellow and white sweet clover; a self seeding biennial; bees love it

                                                                     Staghorn sumac

                                                  Pansy's; never seen a honey bee on it