ByKaaren Grimminger, Nebraska Extension Master Gardener
As you’re working in your garden or in your landscape, do consider bees. Especially honeybees. As they are pollinating your veggies, fruit, flowers, shrubs, and trees, the bees are taking pollen to feed their young and taking nectar to turn into honey. The bees will eat the honey and also collect this healthy food for us. A fun fact concerns pollination and orchids. Orchids ‘flirt’ with honeybees to attract them. Orchids then spit out a bundle of pollen onto the bees’ backs.