Forget Me Not with Honeybee

I must say that the colors on this Forget Me Not are just extraordinary. This little honeybee might well be one from the "old hive" in the honey hole in the big tree behind my house. I say that because I did learn, from a beekeeper who came out here to get the nest of bees suspended on my spruce tree, that old hives get too crowded and a dormant queen will emerge and take with her a slew of honeybees and form a new hive somewhere. The old hive, in what I call the "Honey Hole," will remain there where it is in the hole that used to be where squirrels gave birth to babies and I have photos of these tiny (by squirrel standards) heads peeking out of that hole. Anyway; nowadays, the hole is always filled with honeybees coming and going and I suspect this dude is one of them who just got a shot of juice from the flowers that comes and goes and is called, Forget Me Not.

A Nest of Honeybees

A nest of honeybees. This group of honeybees, according to the experts who came out at my request, left the home hive as it was becoming too crowded, and a new queen brought her bees with her and this was their first stop — a branch of my spruce tree. I would guess there were several thousand bees there as it is a buzzing, living mass of honeybees. Minutes before the experts got here, the group of bees took off and where they went nobody knows. This breaking away from the original hive is how honeybees multiply and grow larger in numbers. I am thankful the old hive is still in the hole in the tree that I call the "honey hole," and I am glad these are off somewhere making their new hive which will mean more blossoms will produce fruit this summer.