Wild Aster by Green Lake
Good bee food
Mimosa Tree
Attractive to bees
Japanese Knotweed
Very invasive, non-native species but the bees love it. The honey is very dark.
Drone larva on a white plate that were disected out of some brood comb that was culled from a hive. The black spots are varroa mites that were on the brood.
The last time that we went into the hives to collect honey (August 23), we did not find as much honey as we expected. Evidently, there was not a whole lot for the bees to eat after the linden trees stopped blooming and before the Japanese knot weed started to bloom.
We are selling honey at the Phinney Farmers' Market and the Bothell Farmers' Market along with selling to neighbors and friends. The honey supply is ok but not abundant. We hope for some nice weather on Thursday Sept. 2 when we will start to look in the hives again for some more honey to harvest.
School starts soon and my husband and I get back to our day jobs as teachers.
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