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Bee the Best! Passion for Bees, Compassion for Beekeepers Menu Skip to content Home Bio Extension Research Beetography Talks Honey Flowers Links Bee Love Leave a reply Tweet Bee-love [By Zachary Huang] When missing you I taste a bit of honey It is still sweet, as usual The promise you made For thousands of years I can hear Your humming Your wings dancing With flowers faintly scented Closing my eyes I can feel you from the sky ascent Like an angel From God My head becomes light I don’t know if I am smitten Or just because my blood sugar is high It should be your beauty And your hidden stinger Both, Give me that shiver 2019.8.20, 00:51 ** Probably because I was shooting bees swarming over the beebee tree at MSU campus, that I could not sleep that night and came up with this one. 1. Beebee tree loaded with bees. 2. Closeup of a bee on male flowers 3. A bee working on female flowers. can you see the difference? The middle thing that sticks out is the stigma (the part which receives pollen). This entry was posted in Photo blog on 08/21/2019 by Zachary Huang . Post navigation ← Older posts Search Search for: Recent Posts Bee Love Michigan Spring Flowers: 1. Winter Aconite Varroa Biology, Queen and Drone Biology Staghorn sumac Crown Vetch Basswood Bird’s foot trefoil Catalpa is blooming White clover Desert false indigo News about Huang’s research 2019: Bee pollen 2017: Varroa RNAi 2016: Bee vampire 2016: 360 perspective 2015: Varroa cuticles 2014: Bee loss 2009: New ways for mite control 2008: Combing for clues 2007: CCD research 2006: KleidaGraph and bees Zach's other web projects AAPA Michigan Beekeepers Association Cyberbee Image Lib CFC club Eat bugs! Bee the Best! Bee Love 08/21/2019 TweetBee-love [By Zachary Huang] When missing you I taste a bit of honey It is still sweet, as usual The promise you made For thousands of years I can hear Your humming Your wings dancing With flowers faintly scented Closing my eyes I can feel you from the sky ascent Like an angel From God […] Michigan Spring Flowers: 1. Winter Aconite 04/23/2019 TweetZachary Huang, Michigan State University Citation: Huang, Z.Y. 2014. Michigan spring flowers: 1. winter aconite. BeetheBest Blog, http://bees.msu.edu/2014/winter-aconite/. Accessed on {date of your visit}. Family Renunculaceae Genus Eranthis Species E. hyemalis Common names aconite, winter aconite ZBAS*: 8 ZBAS*=Zach’s bee attraction score, by a plant. This is a subjective index (1-10, with 10 the most […] Varroa Biology, Queen and Drone Biology 03/08/2019 TweetThese are the two handouts for my two talks at the ANR week: Handout (pdf format): Varroa Mite Reproductive Biology Link to Bee eXtension Varro reproductive biology Handout (pdf format): Queen and drone biology Zachary Staghorn sumac 07/06/2018 Tweet Family: Anacardiaceae Genus: Rhus Species: R. typhina Common name: Staghorn sumac ZBAS: 8 I just noticed that this flower is basically done recently. It is difficult in summer (swarm control bee checking today!) to keep it up with flowers if I were to write on every flowers as they bloom! (still get red clover, alsike […] Crown Vetch 07/06/2018 Tweet Family： Fabaceae Genus： Securigera Species： S. varia Common names： Crown vetch ZBAS* Honey bees 3, bumble bees 8 This flower is actually quite pretty. They remind me of my home town’s Chinese milkvetch which has the same shape of flowers but is a bit more red. It grows here by the road side and […] Basswood 07/05/2018 Tweet Family： Malvaceae Genus： Tillia Species： Around 45 species worldwide Common names： Basswood, linden tree ZBAS 10 The first time I saw basswood (linden tree, Tillia) blooming this year, it was June 16, it is probably a different species from what I have here today. Right now all T. americana are done, T. tormentosa is […] Bird’s foot trefoil 06/20/2018 Tweet Bird’s foot trefoil has been blooming for a while. It is a legume so that it fixes nitrogen just like the white clover. Honey bees will forage on it frequently. Mostly observed for pollen, but may also produce some honey from this plant. Family： Fabaceae Genus： Lotus Species： Lotus corniculatus Other names： eggs and […] Catalpa is blooming 06/18/2018 Tweet Family: Bignoniaceae Genus: Catalpa Species: C. speciosa Other names: catawba ZBAS 7 I noticed that the catalpa trees have been blooming in Okemos for a few days. I took a few more pictures 3 days ago, but saw no bees on them. I checked my huge library of bee photos and found a few […] White clover 06/17/2018 TweetZachary Huang, Michigan State University Family: Fabaceae Genus: Trifolium Species: T. repens Common names: Dutch clover, Ladino clover, or Ladino ZBAS*: 8 If one asks me what is the most important bee plant in Michigan, I would have to answer that it is this plant. My estimate would be that this plant contributes 40-50% of […] Desert false indigo 05/25/2018 Tweet Family: Fabaceae Subfamily: Faboideae Genus: Amorpha Species: A. fruticosa Common names desert false indigo false indigo-bush bastard indigobush Zach’s bee attractiveness scale (ZBAS) 8 This flower was native to US but I saw it first time in China. 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