Honey bees and asters, 04 October 2025

 04 October 2025 at 3 p.m., it’s 25 C.      

    

It’s the last of summery weather before October asserts itself with cold weather; honey bees are visiting the asters, they are in bloom late September and early October. It’s the bees' last chance to collect pollen and nectar and then we all face six month of cold weather. Photographs taken with my IPhone.

Video: Honey bees collecting pollen

Here is a second short video, of honey bees collecting pollen from lavender. Online since 20 October 2025.

Or, cut and paste the following, 

https://youtube.com/shorts/2Dr9y_voM40?si=FVXXH-GxZGSxHfPE

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

Canadian Cottage Garden on 6 August 2025

 This is the best the garden has ever been. 

Honey bees on 2 August 2025

 On the corner of Mayfair and Terrebonne; honey bees love these hydrangeas.

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. 

 

A bee hive at Mountainview School

 Photographs taken on 15 April 2024.

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.