Bee on Parsley

Lots of buzzing around my place whenever parsley is in flower. Those bees just love them, which is great for them because they want pollen. Great for me also, because you can be sure they will help pollinate everything else. Those pollen sacks are filling up quick! Bees seem to wrestle more than dance when it comes…

shanegenziuk

February 25, 2012

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bee, parsley, pollen

Lots of buzzing around my place whenever parsley is in flower. Those bees just love them, which is great for them because they want pollen.

Great for me also, because you can be sure they will help pollinate everything else.

Those pollen sacks are filling up quick!

Bees seem to wrestle more than dance when it comes to collecting pollen.

Covered in it!

Why California Almonds Need North Dakota Flowers (And A Few Billion Bees) (npr.org)
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A Messy Garden… (hanburyhome.wordpress.com)

6 responses to “Bee on Parsley”

A Carpet of Parsley Flowers for Bees | Coffee Grounds to Ground

December 28, 2012 at 8:02 pm

[…] Now as for those seeds, which started off as flowers. Bees love parsley flowers, and having bees around helps with all those fruit trees, pumpkin, watermelons and so on. Close up bee photos are on an earlier post of mine here. […]

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Jowie O

March 25, 2012 at 7:45 am

What a great combination of my almost two favourite things! Are coffee grounds good for parsley?

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Jennifer Ward-Pelar

February 27, 2012 at 3:17 am

Did you take these photos? They’re amazing!

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1. shanegenziuk
  
  February 28, 2012 at 1:34 pm
  
  Yes all mine thank you! Not easy mind you, with a little camera that needs to be tricked into macro mode. Glad you liked the – more on the way.
  
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Urban permaculturist

February 26, 2012 at 9:06 am

I love bees too. Check out my mate Martin’s blog on: http://theurbanhive.blogspot.com.au/
He is based in Reservoir. He builds the hive in his shed and catches bees in the wild to start a new colony.

Hope you are well.

Zainil

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1. shanegenziuk
  
  February 26, 2012 at 4:19 pm
  
  Cheers Zainil, wow what a great site. Always been interested in bee keeping but one of those things that never makes the top of the list.
  
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