The Wide bay branch has continued working their way through Tim Heard’s book, with the chapter about forag-ing raising much discussion about the effect of tempera-ture and cloud cover on foraging, as noticed in member’s own backyards.
As the group meets at a different home each month, the June meeting gave everyone the chance to admire the role of dombeya and Mexican sunflower shrubs in providing winter food for stingless bees at a suburban property largely surrounded by grass paddocks.
(The attached photo captures a stingless bee approaching the left side of a cluster of dombeya blooms)
From Michelle Miedecke and Stephen Curran, Secretary, Wide Bay Branch
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