Early this morning I was in the garden walking by an Archontophoenix cunninghamiana inflorescence which drew my attention not by site, but by the sound of a multitude of bees swarming on its flowers.  I walked to another part of the garden, where flowers were blooming on my Dypsis lanceolata's inflorescence where one lone bee was working.  Later in the day, I repeated the walk and the same thing.  I've noticed this in the past, that bees seem to be much more attracted to my Archontophoenix flowers than the flowers of most Dypsis or Chamaedoreas.  Anyone else notice this phenomena?  The other genus that attracts lots of bees seems to be Phoenix species I've grown (reclinata and roebelenii).  Anyone else notice that some palm flowers seem to attract more bees than others in their garden? The Archonotphoenix:

... meanwhile this one bee had this entire inflorescence on my Dypsis lanceolata to itself, and rarely do I see more than a few working it's flowers.  The same was true earlier this summer on my Dpysis prestoniana, and Dypsis lutescens.

 

4 minutes ago, Tracy said:

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Tracy, it does my heart good to hear the buzzing of bees congregating on my palm inflorescence's. They especially like the flowers on Prestoea acuminata var. Montana. 

I do hear the humming all over the garden though, but I'm not sure of the overall health of the bee population here on the island or the impact of the virus.

 

Tim

Oh, amazing photographs as well. 

Tim