Bees need to eat earlier.🐝 ☕

'hungry gap' results in low colony survival and low production of queens for the following year.

enhance hedgerows with early blooming species, especially ground ivy, red dead-nettle, maple, cherry, hawthorn, and willow, which improved colony success rate from 35% to 100%.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-bees-food-month-earlier-pollinator.html