Bizarre bees? Lunch at the bird feeder
Feb 11, 2016 16:51:38 #
From what I read on the web this is usual honeybee behavior when the temperature gets in the 50s (it has been for the last few days) and there are no flowers yet. I guess the dust from the degraded cracked corn in the bird food is what they are after. I had never noticed such behavior before this last week or so ergo I thought I would share.
Feb 11, 2016 17:16:42 #
Roger k
Loc: Gulf coast of Texas
Chuckster72 wrote:
From what I read on the web this is usual honeybee behavior when the temperature gets in the 50s (it has been for the last few days) and there are no flowers yet. I guess the dust from the degraded cracked corn in the bird food is what they are after. I had never noticed such behavior before this last week or so ergo I thought I would share.
Growing up as a Nebraska farm boy, we would leave a 100 bushel wagon of ground up ear corn for feed between the feed bunks for the cattle that were fed twice a day. It was common to see the honey bees crawling around the ground up corn like it had nectar in it so it probably did. The wagon being in the sunshine may have played a role in it also. We also had four sets of bee hives a couple 100 yards away from the cattle lot. The bees will go after the nectar wherever they can find it.
Feb 11, 2016 17:53:17 #
Roger k wrote:
Growing up as a Nebraska farm boy, we would leave a 100 bushel wagon of ground up ear corn for feed between the feed bunks for the cattle that were fed twice a day. It was common to see the honey bees crawling around the ground up corn like it had nectar in it so it probably did. The wagon being in the sunshine may have played a role in it also. We also had four sets of bee hives a couple 100 yards away from the cattle lot. The bees will go after the nectar wherever they can find it.
Thanks for sharing. Your reply describes a world I've never been in.
Feb 13, 2016 01:26:23 #
Feb 13, 2016 01:50:25 #
sailorsmom wrote:
I agree. I had never seen anything like it before. Thanks for looking and commenting.Very interesting, Chuck!
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