Monthly Archives: May 2018

Taraxacum officinale

If there is a flower everywhere, many people still want to kill them, it is Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae). They are everywhere in spring! They are golden. Because there are very little flowers in the spring, it is recommended that you let the bees pick some and do not cut them too early or kill them with herbicides.

Finally I found the photos,photographed on Mother ’s Day in 2015 in the mobile phone. It exhibited the dandelion in the ground.

At that time,I went to the greenhouse and took a lot of beautiful flowers.

This is the time (2006) to go to the starving city to photograph cherry blossoms, on the ground next to the vineyard.

These flowers are still beautiful when they look closer!

蜜蜂也很喜欢!但是,这个花的花粉缺少四个氨基酸,对蜜蜂不是特别好的花粉。

The bees like them, too! However, the pollen of this flower lacks four amino acids and is not very good for bees.

Please see: M. Loper, Gerald & C Cohen, Allen. (1987). Amino Acid Content of Dandelion Pollen, a Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Nutritional Evaluation. Journal of Economic Entomology. 80. 14-17. 10.1093/jee/80.1.14.

I photographed this on the way to work two days earlier in the car.

Several macro bees taken before.

I want to find the dandelion in that bee’s horizon, the beautiful green in the middle. It took 40 minutes to find it! but I failed.

Attention everyone! Both numbers will be pushed from tomorrow. The above is the new QR code. thank you all