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Title: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: GSF on February 19, 2014, 09:44:33 PM
Do bees visit daffodils or henpeck? I've got some daffodils but I have never seen any bees on them. The henpeck is fixing to start around here as well.
Title: Re: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: chux on February 19, 2014, 10:03:49 PM
Is henpeck the same as henbit? A commercial beek told me that those little flowers are coming up around corn fields here. The bees are getting pollen from it. I guess. Right now i'm seeing a yellow pollen. From it?
Title: Re: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: GSF on February 19, 2014, 10:08:57 PM
I believe it's the same. What I'm looking at has very small purple/blue flowers.
Title: Re: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: richter1978 on February 19, 2014, 11:28:08 PM
Quote from: GSF on February 19, 2014, 09:44:33 PM
Do bees visit daffodils or henpeck? I've got some daffodils but I have never seen any bees on them. The henpeck is fixing to start around here as well.
I was at the local nursery the other day and saw a honeybee visiting some paperwhites (small daffodils).
Title: Re: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: Michael Bush on February 20, 2014, 07:56:03 PM
Bees work both.  Especially henbit.
Title: Re: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: GSF on February 20, 2014, 10:15:52 PM
I just bing'd it and found some images, it's henbit.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Daffodils and Henpeck
Post by: sc-bee on February 21, 2014, 01:16:31 PM
Here, henbit I have seen worked. Daffodils I have not noticed any being worked but don't mean they won't. Had the daffodils poking out the top of the three inches of ice around them last week.