{"id":149,"date":"2009-02-17T15:14:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-06-14T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:18:19","slug":"what-honeybees-want-to-eat-and-when-they-want-to-eat-it-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/02\/17\/what-honeybees-want-to-eat-and-when-they-want-to-eat-it-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"What honeybees want to &#8220;eat&#8221; and when they want to eat it, in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October I went to an interesting talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mainebeekeepers.org\/cumberland-county-beekeepers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Beekeepers Association<\/a>.\u00a0 It featured a \u00a0retired Biologist (and beekeeper named Matt Scott) who  spoke about &#8220;Bee Pasturage&#8221; and had a slide show that showed a number of the different examples.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared a number of publications that he thought would be helpful to beekeepers in identifying local flowers, etc..<\/p>\n<p>What I found most helpful was this chart (below) that he passed out (and said was fine to use as long as he was attributed) called &#8220;Range of Maine Honey Plant Blooms&#8221; &#8211; basically, it\u00a0 is what honeybees want to &#8220;eat&#8221; and when they want to eat it, in Maine.\u00a0 I hope to be able to get some of this stuff planted for my first hives,\u00a0 this Spring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150\" title=\"What honeybees want to &quot;eat&quot; and when they want to eat it, in Maine.\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/what-bees-like-to-eat-when-in-maine.jpg\" alt=\"What honeybees want to &quot;eat&quot; and when they want to eat it, in Maine.\" width=\"508\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/what-bees-like-to-eat-when-in-maine.jpg 508w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/what-bees-like-to-eat-when-in-maine-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 85vw, 508px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What honeybees want to &quot;eat&quot; and when they want to eat it, in Maine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October I went to an interesting talk at the Cumberland County Beekeepers Association.\u00a0 It featured a \u00a0retired Biologist (and beekeeper named Matt Scott) who spoke about &#8220;Bee Pasturage&#8221; and had a slide show that showed a number of the different examples. He also shared a number of publications that he thought would be helpful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/02\/17\/what-honeybees-want-to-eat-and-when-they-want-to-eat-it-in-maine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What honeybees want to &#8220;eat&#8221; and when they want to eat it, in Maine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17,147,18,19,71],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-bee","tag-beekeeping","tag-bees","tag-honeybee","tag-matt-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}