Apple
Malus domestica
- Flowering period
- April–May
- Nectar
- gering
- Pollen
- gering
The Apple flowers from late April to May and is one of the most important spring flows of all. It provides plenty of nectar and abundant yellowish pollen at the same time, matching exactly the period when colonies expand their brood nest. Conversely, bees are essential for the yield of the orchard. Because the bloom lasts only one to two weeks, the weather decides the harvest. One dataset gives a sugar yield of around 7.9 kilograms per hectare per year and a pollen yield of around 13 kilograms per hectare per year, recorded in Poland and Great Britain. British measurements give around 110 micrograms of sugar per flower per day and around 129,971 pollen grains per flower.
Sources (9)
- Bienenweidepflanzen für den Hausgarten, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau (LWG) Veitshöchheim
- Bienenweidekatalog Baden-Württemberg, Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz mit Universität Hohenheim
- Kultur-Apfel, Pflanzensteckbrief bei Die Honigmacher (Deutscher Imkerbund)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Apfel
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments
- Malus domestica in der World Flora Online Plant List
- Kulturapfel, Wikipedia
- Baude, Kunin, Memmott (2015): Nectar sugar values of common British plant species [AgriLand]
- Baude, Kunin, Davies, Wright, Memmott (2025): Pollen production values of common British plant species