Honey plants you need to know during the outbreak
1. Main nectar plants
Plants with a large number, wide distribution, long flowering period, large amount of nectar secretion, bee picking, and the ability to produce commercial honey, mainly include: buckwheat in food crops; rape, sunflower, safflower, sesame, arugula in oil crops; Cotton in fiber crops; alfalfa, legumes, rhododendrons, and vetch in legumes and green manure; citrus, jujube, lychee, longan, loquat in fruit trees; locust tree, lime tree, blue fruit tree, Eucalyptus and wattle, Yebazi, salt skin wood, osmanthus and other shrubs; Elsholtzia, wild melon head, stamen in wild grass, and lavender, thyme in spice plants, etc., are the main honey sources for bee colonies to be transferred periodically.
2. Auxiliary honey plants
There are many kinds of plants that can secrete a small amount of nectar and produce a small amount of pollen, such as peach, pear, apple, hawthorn and other fruit trees, as well as melons, vegetables, forest trees, flowers and so on. It can be used to adjust the food supply when the main honey source plants are not in the flowering period, especially before the main honey source plants flow honey period to cultivate a large number of young bees, in order to give full play to the advantages of the main honey flow period, improve bee products Production and quality create conditions.
