Hungry Bees Like Flowers From Rural Areas Than In Urban Ones? Find Out Here Why
Even bees have their preferred meal when they are hungry. Bees like flowers and their flavor when they are fresh from the rural areas rather than in the neighboring urban cities, researchers stated.
This newfound information will definitely challenge the urban beekeepers in how they will handle it. It will also debunk the long-believed thing that farmland and honey bees are incompatible, said authors of a new study from The Ohio State University. The researchers experimented on some honeybee colonies.
They placed the honey bee colonies in an apiary in a central Ohio cemetery right in the middle of where urban residential development meets the farmland. They left the colonies of honey bees to fend for themselves and choose what flower pollen and where to get nectar from. The outcome of the study has shocked the researchers. Almost every time, the honeybees went to the rural areas, unlike what they expected.