List of honey plants
As a bee costume plant or bee pasture is called the plants that produce particularly rich nectar and pollen and are therefore often served by honey bees.
Description
Bee honey plants are of great importance for beekeeping. Many beekeepers use in the transhumance such plants by making them aware prepare their peoples in the areas where bees honey plants bloom straight.
Beekeepers plant occasionally to bees honey plants in order to offer their bee colonies sufficiently collecting base can. This is problematic, however, when non-native or non-native plants in the region are applied specifically in the great outdoors. This so-called Ansalbung is prohibited by § 40 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act. The case of the giant hogweed shows that this is with good reason as follows: This plant was especially beekeepers recommended in the second half of the 20th century as a costume plant. The propagation of strong giant hogweed is however classified as problematic neophyte because of the health risks posed by him and in many places combats. As shown by individual investigations, giant hogweed stocks often go back to such Ansalbungen by beekeepers.
Examples of bee honey plants are:
- Rape
- The black locust, which provides the " acacia honey "
- Linde, which provides the considered particularly promote well linden honey
- Phacelia ( Bienenfreund )
- Wild thyme
- Common bird's-foot trefoil, as well as many other Fabaceae (eg red clover, white clover, alfalfa, lupine )
- Holzapfel and generally pome and stone fruit trees in the rose family
- Berry bushes such as blueberry, currant, strawberry
- Dandelion
- Heather
- Turkish dragon head
- Sweet chestnut
- Hazel (pollen )
In many of these types of bees visit is essential to crop production, especially in the fruit trees.