Is honey different depending on the types of plants that are available?
The honey is primarily nectar. The nectar comes from flowers and trees. The nectar gets lighter as the summer progresses and the bees start gathering flower nectar. As I look at my frames at the end of the season I can tell which cells were filled at the beginning of the season as opposed to the end of the season by the color of the honey that is in them. If you have bees that have wintered over they start the honey production season by feeding off of the pine trees and that makes black honey. Then they hit the maple trees and that’s dark. Later in the summer, June and July, they start hitting the flowers and produce a lighter honey. Typically that is blended all together. But, if you get a new package of bees in May or the beginning of June, then they start collecting only the wildflowers and you get a lighter honey. How do the bees know where the pollen and nectar are?The bees talk to each other using a “waggle dance”. All the bees have different jobs, one is to forage for pollen, re
