Carlyle Gateway July Hive Update
Notes from your Beekeeper,
James:
The hives on the rooftop of Carlyle Gateway continued their strong growth as the summer heat and storms picked up in July. In mid-July I harvested a beautiful honey crop from your rooftop hives! The frames are being stored off-site and we will be processing and bottling the honey soon, so keep an eye out for updates!
Since the honey harvest, the bees have stored an impressive amount of honey due to an unusual late summer nectar flow. Because of the almost daily rain we received in July, there were more flowering plants and trees in the region, in addition to the flowering vegetable plants in the John Carlyle Rooftop Garden.
Wondering how the honey bees
find flowering plants?
Bees can communicate with each other through a unique "waggle dance". When a forager bee finds a good source of nectar or pollen, it returns to the hive and performs a series of figure-eight movements. The angle and duration of the dance tell other bees the direction and distance to the food source—essentially giving GPS directions by dancing!
