Vindfløy Bybigård

The hives buried in the snow above Bergen at night❄❄❄
📸 Martin Koch

Christmas Rose
First and last bloom of the year 🌸🌟

Vindfløy Worldwide 🌍
A jar from Norway to Lamu, Kenya 🌴
📷 .bees

Warming up ☀️

Fall in Bergen. The Fløyen hives over the fog the other day.



 

Harvesting the Sandviken summerhoney

472 mm rain! 🌧🌧🌧
We broke the record and had the wettest August on record. Only 3 rainfree days the whole month. Little flight time and no honey coming in. Time to wrap up the season.
For reference, Berlin gets 581mm a year.



 

NEWSBLOG
Apris Florea, the asian dwarf honeybee, has been recorded for the first time in Europe. Probably arriving by ship, Increasing temperatures support the establishment of species in new ecosystems.

The news: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/30/colony-invasive-red-dwarf-honeybee-first-time-europe

The science:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00218839.2024.2386888

Apis florea in Europe: first report of the dwarf honey bee in Malta The Red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea), is a single-comb open-nesting member of the genus Apis with a natural distribution area stretching from the Indomalayan realm on the east to the Persian Gulf ...

Plenty of veggies, herbs and 60kg of honey.
Rooftop garden on a office building by 🥒🥬🥕🍯

Pollen through the season from april to August.
Each colour represents a different flower from dandelions in spring to heather in august. 🌼🌳🌸
Pollen is needed as a protein source to build new bees, nectar is the energy source that keeps them running.

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17°C ☀️
Bergen city bees on the rooftop.