Forest as a bee pasture

By Nelly Zupanc & Sara Žafran, 7.aSchool: OŠ Slivnica ri Celju, SloveniaSchool year: 2015/2016

SPRUCE (Lat.: Picea abies; SLO: NAVADA SMREKA)

SPRUCE is the most recognisable and extended tree. It’s an anemophilous plant, so the bees collect honeydew on them.

*anemophily = wind pollination

SILVER FIR (Lat.: Abies alba; SLO: NAVADNA JELKA)

SILVER FIR blooms from late April to early June. It is an anemophilous plant - bees collect honeydew on silver firs.

SWEET CHESTNUT (Lat.: Castanea sativa; SLO: PRAVI KOSTANJ)

SWEET CHESTNUT is an entomophilous plant and it’s visited by 135 species of insects, including bees, of course. It offers to the bees a rich foraging nectar and honeydew in the second half of June and in July, at a time when other species have ceased to bloom.

*entomophily = insect pollination

SYCAMORE (Lat.: Acer pseudoplatanus; SLO: GORSKI JAVOR)

SYCAMORE can grow up to 40 metres and it can live very long.

WILD CHERRY (Lat.: Prunus avium; SLO: DIVJA ČEŠNJA)

WILD CHERRY’s wood is very appreciated. It is important for forest animals and birds.

LINDEN (Lat.: Tilia platyphyllos; SLO: LIPA)

LINDEN has a special symbolic significance for Slovenians and it is considered the centre of social life.

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