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Literally “Busy
As a Bee”
BLACKSBURG-“Busy as a bee” has real significance this year. The spring of 1969 will be remembered for many years by beekeepers as the year bees really made honey.
J. M. Amos, Extension bee specialist at Virginia Tech said this year’s honey crop appears to be the best he has seen in 20 years.
“Many older beekeepers say it was the best tulip poplar honey flow that they have ever seen,” Amos said. Tulip poplar is the deep red, full-flavored honey. In some areas black locust have failed to yield nectar because of the poor weather that usually comes when it is in bloom. Locust honey is white and midly flavored. In eastern Virginia the flow from locust was not so good but in the western part of the state it was the best in many years, with 30 to 40 pounds being reported. With trees yielding nectar so well during the early honey flow and showers prevailing in the Piedmont area, beekeepers were looking forward to a good flow of nectar from sourwood. Some think it is making honey in the Appomattox-Brookneal area and other beekeepers have a poor flow. The white, delicately -flavored sourwood honey is the
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