What do bees eat up ? Nectar , right ? Well … that ’s not all . They ’ll gobble up a slew more than you might recollect !
Bees love sugar . Though their primary source of it may be nectar , they also love to get into fallen fruit :
I contain that photograph when I was atTaylor Gardens Nurserythe other day . She ’s sipping by at the juice seeping from a fall Vitis rotundifolia grape .
bee are awing little creatures . I think if we have sex all the weird hooey that break into our dear , we might be shock …
Here ’s another shot of this little bread fiend :
SIDE NOTE : My unexampled - ish camerahas a nice close - up mood that I ’ve been using to good effect snapping movie of insects . The bee in the photo get me get gracious and closelipped and I ’m happy to see the autofocus worked well .
I ’ve had issues with close - up shots on some premature cameras . I think of one daylight when I was seek to photograph aphids on a willow tree . I took something like 30 shots and most of them were blurred . The autofocus was wildly zipping in and out and there was no manual override . The perils of trusting a shot to a computer chip …
When I lived in Tennessee , I noticed that my honeybees also greatly enjoyed the fallen pears from my pear trees . Anyone that got split or damaged attracted bee – they ’d eat off those pear all day long .
Now … back to bee .
If you have bee , you ’re probably beyond being surprised at what they ’ll wipe out . They ’ll go after confect , pop , lemonade , fermenting fruit and all form of eldritch poppycock . If it ’s seraphic , the bees will go for it .
When I was a Kyd , one year Dad and Mom took us on a long summertime vacation all the agency from Florida into North Carolina and then on into Virginia and deep into Upstate New York where my great - grandparents survive . One good afternoon while passing through Virginia , we stopped for a piece of cake on the grass . Mom made sandwich and Dad was drinking a Mountain Dew from a can ( I remember that back then he drink Mountain Dew or Mello Yello when we were on holiday – and only when we were on vacation . The rest of the year I do n’t intend he drink in any soda at all ) when he noticed a piddling bee buzz interestedly around the lip of the can and luff it out to us tiddler . The short worker kept buzzing around so Dad shooed it off . A few proceedings later he must have quit paying attention , because he submit a swig of his soda and suddenly clap it in an explosion across the grass .
“ The bee was in there ! I almost swallowed the bee ! ”
We minor think it was uproarious and scary at the same time . Imagine take back a bee !
Yep . They ’ll also steal your Citrullus vulgaris , nibble your candy , rob honey from a dearest bear and lick up spilled juice .
If it has sugar in it , bees will probably eat it .
On a related note , I ’m currently co - writing a raw book on southern apiculture along with my friend Allen the Beekeeper . Unlike keeping bees up northwards , beekeeping in the south is a whole dissimilar new ballgame and Allen lie with his stuff . As for me , I ’m learning as we write . He ’s the expert … I ’m just the wordsmith .
I ’ll keep you post – we ’re about a fourth of the way done with the book and it ’s mould up nicely .
For now , here are two videos Allan and I recorded together on beekeeping :
