What a pleasure to see the bees at work. They are a treasured resource and as you know all farmers are doing their best to protect them by removing from use neonicotinoids from our spray repertoire. We always joke bees are our unpaid workers as they industriously work their way through the orchards. There are lots of different bee species and to our delight , Sam, who is carrying out some research into pollinators has identified a huge number of species in our orchards. Today is cool so most of the bees stay at home but the mason bee is very diligent and works all weathers . We import mason bees for the early pollination period.
