Bidens is a genus of flowering composite plants that are often used as balcony plants. With their rich, slightly overhanging blooms, the plants enchant almost every gardener. But what about bees? Do honey bees, bumblebees and the like also like two-toothed teeth?
Is Biden's bee-friendly?
Bidens is bee-friendly. Honey and wild bees can obtain nectar and pollen from the popular Goldmarie and all other varieties of the daisy family. Bee experts attribute a moderate benefit to the insects.
What do bees use Bidens for?
Bidens provides bees with bothnectarandpollen Honeybees use the nectar to make honey and the pollen to feed their brood. Wild bees do not live in groups and do not produce honey. They use the nectar directly for themselves and, like honey bees, they use the pollen as food for their offspring.
By the way: The main difference between honey and wild bees is their lifestyle. While honey bees are farm animals that “live” together in beehives and produce honey, wild bees spend their lives as lone fighters, so to speak.
Which flower color do bees prefer for Bidens?
Observations show that bees particularly like thewhite and pink flowering varieties of Bidens. However, they don't say no to the red-yellow and pure yellow Bidens flowers when the opportunity arises.
Do bee experts classify Biden as bee-friendly?
Experts who study wild and honey bees extensively rate Bidens asaverage bee-friendly. Although nectar and pollen can be used by all bee species, there are plants that the insects much prefer to hang out on.
As an example, an experiment by bee researcher Paul Westrich should be mentioned, in which he planted Bidens not far from rapeseed. Occasionally bees helped themselves to Bidens, but the far greater number of the fascinating animals settled on the rapeseed plants.
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Bidens also attracts other insects
When the Bidens' heyday comes, it's not just bees that are approaching. The plant, which originally comes from North and Central America, also attracts butterflies, for example.
