Honeybee and daisy mutual relationship?

Question

is there a mutual relationship?

if not, does the honeybee have a mutual relationship with another flower? how have they evolved together over time?

websites / writing / why?

Answer 1

Have you noticed some honey containers say clover honey, buckwheat honey, citrus blossom honey? I personally have never seen any labeled citrus blossom or daisy. We have fields of daisies yet no daisy honey on the market... hmmm does this suggest that daisies do not contribute much to honey?  In our area, if the bees happen to be visiting some daisies, they will also be visiting a lot of buckwheat or clover fields.

The big volume of honey is not daisy around here.

We get some mustard or rapeseed honey, and the beekeepers leave that in the hive to feed the bees over winter.

To look after bees that pollinate fruit orchards farmers depend mostly on clover fields. Clover will have three crops of flowers per summer, and with judicious cutting schedules we can have the bees in clover blossoms all summer long, whereas they may be getting fruit tree nectar for less than a month.

Bees do have a mutual relationship with any plant species that needs a bee to spread its pollen. The flower gives the bee a bribe of honey to go from flower to flower distributing pollen.