Honey Bees in Juneau, Alaska | Bob Armstrong's Nature Alaska

Honey Bees in Juneau, Alaska shows these insects at their nest hive and some of the native flowers they visit.
When they first arrived the main flower in bloom was Nootka Lupine. Of interest is they appeared to not be able to figure out how to enter the flower for nectar and would land on the side of the flower. The native bumblebees, at that tiime, were regular visitors.
The next flower in bloom was the Thimbleberry. The Honey Bees had no trouble entering these wide open flowers and would spend quite a bit of time in the flower.
Crab Spiders were actively hunting on both the lupine and thimbleberry flowers. I would occasionally put a camera focused on a thimbleberry with a crab spider for about an hour in the video mode. The spider eventually caught and ate one of the honey bees.
When the Cow Parsnip came into bloom the Honey Bees visited these flowers on a regular basis. According to the literature Parsnips are important plants for helping these bees make honey.
To understand how the bees make honey look at https://www.naturebob.com/sites/default/files/How%20Bees%20Make%20Honey%…
The mouth to mouth transfer is a fascinating process and you can see this towards the end of this video.
Worldwide the raising of Honey Bees has become very popular. Although this has helped algriculture in some areas the evidence indicates it has caused considerable harm to the environment. To learn about this look at this article in Scientific American https://www.naturebob.com/sites/default/files/The%20Problem%20with%20Hon…