Mine still hanging

Golden Hornet today in full blossom with some mummy fruit still on.
The interesting thing to me was how it was literally covered in bees! I could hear them from ten feet away, I counted four different species honey bee/bumble bee/mason bee/sweat bee and a few wasps.

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Have a few Franklin cider still with some mummy fruit and breaking bud also. Never really noticed fruit still on the Franklins all winter but was mild and maybe that changed things a bit. Trees are also getting bigger with more fruit to start with. Mild winters tend to have more mummy fruit left on "bird" crabs too that typically never drop but the birds will pick clean.

Now if we can just avoid some late frosts the next few weeks.
 
Golden Hornet today in full blossom with some mummy fruit still on.
The interesting thing to me was how it was literally covered in bees! I could hear them from ten feet away, I counted four different species honey bee/bumble bee/mason bee/sweat bee and a few wasps.

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In regards to the number of bees. Went to a customer a number of years ago that used a lot of honey in products and the owner had made a small museum area about bees. Never realized that so much diversity and that WI has about 400 different bee species. Sure that it is the same in Ohio. Of course the non native honey bee gets all the press but I typically see lots of smaller bees doing the pollination by me. Not sure what they are but several different kinds as well.
 
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