Your Garden Apple Tree Could be A Key Indicator For The Health Of Your Local Bees.
Your garden apple tree could be one of the key indicators as to the kind of year your local bees are going to have. As with many animals, birds and insects spring is a key time of year with regards to recovering from the winter and building food stores for the months ahead. Apples along with most other plants are helped in pollination by a number of insects however no plant is more dependant on wild bees for it pollination than the apple make the garden apple tree a key indicator.
Apples are good indicator because most require cross pollination normally carried out mainly by bees and the flowering times are largely dependant on accumulative light levels and temperature levels triggering flowering. So have a look at your garden apple trees and see if the fruit from the flower has set and looks healthy, it should be looking like a perfect small apple at this stage.
