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hank235

March 28, 2010, 11:37:34 AM
Does anyone know why bees would be all over the ground in my garden where we have spread coffee grounds and working it vigously?  It is March and nothing is in bloom here in Massachusetts.
Is there a benefit to coffee grounds?

Thanks
Hank

CBEE

#1
March 28, 2010, 12:34:47 PM
Don't know. I spread it around in front of my hives because skunks dont like it and I have never seen bees on it. Well, maybe they just want a cup of coffee :-D

doak

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March 28, 2010, 02:05:10 PM
Coffee grounds are good for any kind of potted plant and for the compost pile. Also makes good materal for worm beds. You fish don't you? :)doak

Shawn

#3
March 28, 2010, 07:22:34 PM
Are we talking used or unused coffee grounds?

doak

#4
March 28, 2010, 07:30:24 PM
After I get through with them.

Growing up we were so poor my Mom used the grounds till they turned white and that was out grits. :shock: :) ;)doak

hardwood

#5
March 28, 2010, 07:40:15 PM
 :lau:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Scadsobees

#6
March 28, 2010, 10:39:50 PM
I'd guess for water.  I see a lot of bees working some wood chips when it is wet, or the leaf pile when it is wet, but aren't there once it dries out.

Rick
Rick

Highlandsfreedom

#7
March 28, 2010, 11:23:55 PM
Thats too funny Doak...... yah I would guess for water too but that would mean there is nector some where wouldent it?
To bee or not to bee that is the question I wake up to answer that every morning...

Two Bees

#8
March 29, 2010, 09:41:04 AM
Decaf or regular?   :-D
"Don't know what I'd do without that boy......but I'm sure willin' to give it a try!"
J.D. Clampett commenting about Jethro Bodine.

Natalie

#9
March 31, 2010, 01:08:37 AM Last Edit: March 31, 2010, 12:57:52 PM by Natalie
Probably water and I highly doubt there is any benefit to them from used coffee grounds.
There may be things blooming around here that you haven't noticed, the bees find them and you don't even know it.
All of the forsythia shrubs are blooming like crazy. Trees are in bloom.
There are early flowers in bloom, my muscari is right now some people have reported skunk cabbage and witch hazel in bloom.

ziffabeek

#10
March 31, 2010, 12:24:37 PM
I read an article in the Bee Journal about some studies that show bees are attracted to nectar that has caffeine in it.  Maybe they are junkies mainlining?? :D

love,
ziffa

Finski

#11
March 31, 2010, 01:14:05 PM

I have thrown coffee grounds onto garden and bees show no atention on them.

About coffee nectar....  Coffee  grows in the tropic. How  bees can go there?
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