Posts Tagged: bok choy
Bees and Bok Choy
There are many California specialty crops that are harvested for their foliage; since we're not harvesting a fruit or vegetable folks don't often think of these as providing resources for bees. However even though we eat the foliage, these plants still need to flower and be pollinated so that seed...
Bees Don't Balk at Bok Choy
If you let your bok choy go to seed, what a treat for the honey bees.The mild unseasonable weather and blooming bok choy--perfect for foraging honey bees searching for food in January.Mother Nature may fool them. Bok choy does not. Bok choy (Brassica rapa chinensis), also known as Chinese cabbage,...
Honey bee foraging on a blooming bok choy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a wrap! Honey bee all wrapped up in a bok choy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)