Sunday, October 3, 2021

goldenrod 2021

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Along the Atlanta BeltLine, I saw tall upright yellow flowering Goldenrod plants in sunny areas - see photos.

In recent fair weather, honey bees flew vigorously and returned with yellow pollen seen in the photo collage and I noticed a stronger and sour hive odor consistent with Goldenrod forage. 

In late afternoons, I saw a huge number of bees circulating at the sunny hive entrance, busy in orientation flight.  In Atlanta, there are potentially many more weeks of flowering Goldenrod left assuming more fair weather.  This gives me hope that the hive will have lots of bees going into winter.

Will there be a fall honey harvest?  Stay tuned.

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