blue pollen pic

[fshrgy99]

Too much!

[Georgia Boy]

Cool!!

David

[ralittlefield]

Neat!

[Steel Tiger]

well packed too... must be good stuff

[tjc1]

My bees have been bringing it in, too - I understand that it's red maple pollen.

[BeeMaster2]

Nice. We have lots of red male but I have never seen blue pollen down here.
Jim

[Hemlock]

Maple pollen is light yellow/green.  here is a pollen color link to help

Pollen color chart 1

[dfizer]

Maple pollen is light yellow/green.  here is a pollen color link to help
Pollen color chart 1

Although that's very nice and somewhat helpful it doesn't have any blue pollen listed.  It must be a brilliant blue flower.  It's beautiful for sure.

David

[BlueBee]

Photoshop   :evil:

[Simon]

From the pollen chart (David, it's listed about half way down the page, on the flowers and annuals list), it looks like the blue pollen might be from a Siberian Squill ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_squill ).  I never knew that any flowers had blue pollen.  That's really amazing!

Simon

[BlueBee]

Cool Simon.  You're probably right.  Check out the pollen in this photo from Wikipedia

[nietssemaj]

Never seen any blue pollen but my girls are bringing in green.

[fshrgy99]

Very exciting to see (especially since there was snow on the ground overnight). The whole family was out crouched around the hive! Reminds me of some kind of bubble gum.

[Jim134]

Too much!

The blue pollen comes from an early spring flower called Siberian Squill aka Scilla Siberica or Wood Squill.

http://www.beverlybees.com/blue-pollen-honeybees-siberian-squill/



   

                        BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

[PLAN-B]

Thats a giant tick on each side of your bee ...lol  :evil:  Just joking... That is a beautiful pic and really cool....