It's a big month for beekeeping and bees!

There's a number of late-blooming crops in the southern hemisphere that our Apis Mellifera Scutellata and Capensis honey bees love to forage on!

Take advantage of these if you have just decided to start beekeeping to catch bees - we talk about this on one of our YouTube Videos - {Bee Season - ep.3}.

Crops to look out for NOW:

• Applebox - Rank N3P3

• White Flowering Gum - Rank N3P2 [WC,EC]

• River Red Gum - Rank N3P2

• Sugar Gum - Rank N4P1 [WC, EC]

• Narrow Leaf Ironbark - Rank N3P1

• Brown Barrel / Cut Tail - Rank N2P3 [MP, KZN]

• Spotted Gum - Rank N3P3

• Saligna Gum - Rank N4P3 [NP, MP, KZN]

• Forest Red Gum - Rank N4P4

• Acacia Karroo / Sweet Thorn - Rank N2P2

• Acacia Mellifera / Swarthaak - Rank N3P2 [NC, NW]

• Honey Locust - Rank N2P3

• Jacaranda - Rank N2P2

• Canary Island Palm - Rank N0P3

• Black Locust - Rank N3P1

• Marula - Rank N3P2 [NW, MP, KZN, NP]

• Waterberry - Rank N3P1

• Buffalo Thorn - Rank N3P1

• Lucern - Rank N3P1 (If left to flower*)

• Seradella - Rank N3P1 [SC,WC]

• Blue Bush / Bloubos - Rank N2P2*

• Highveld Proteas - Rank N2P2