Video: honey bees and asters

This is a short YouTube video I made in October 2025, showing honey bees collecting pollen from asters. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2974r4LolJc

Asters and honey bees, 28 September 2025

When asters bloom in September

honey bees arrive, not seen

most of the summer

this final nectar 

and pollen

is too much 

for them to ignore

Honey bees in asters, early October 2024

Asters are the honey bees last collection of pollen and nectar before everything seems to close down in the garden. There is a long winter ahead of us and this is a short reprieve of still mild weather before the cold, snow, and short days and long nights. 

 

Honey bees and asters

    It’s October, summer has ended and with it early daylight. I noticed these asters full of honey bees and decided I will plant asters in my garden next year. 

Stopping by St. Philip’s Church

 It was at this moment that I discovered how much honey bees love asters. Summer has ended and the bees are preparing for a long winter, they are bringing in the last pollen and making the last honey that has to last them until next spring when they can, once again, leave the hive in search of pollen and nectar. This is serious business. 

Wild asters

These New England asters are growing near the senior campus of Willingdon School on Coronation Avenue near here; you see them everywhere, they're like weeds. 

Wild asters near Meadowbrook Golf Course