Wednesday, April 6, 2022

tulip poplar windfall and other spring flowers '22

beekeeping,bee,tulip poplar,white clover,chinese wysteria,amur honeysuckle,spiderwort,pollen,foraging,

1st Windfallday of year
April 10, 2011100
March 27, 201287
April 19, 2013109
April 12, 2015102
April 15, 2017105
April 5, 201895
April 11, 2019101
April 7, 202197
April 6, 202296
  
median100

I found this year's first Tulip Popular flower windfall on April 6, 2022 (96th day of the year) and in a few days afterward the ground was covered with Tulip Popular flowers and bees returned with cream colored pollen.   April 6 is just a few days earlier than expected.  However March 27, 2012 is the big outlier, nearly 2 weeks earlier than expected.

Other nectar sources at this time (not shown):

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