Elaeagnus multiflora
As soon as the goumi started putting out flower buds I put its pot next to the blueberries but the bees are mostly ignoring it.
Spent over an hour hand-pollinating it.
Fuzzy little punks!
Three days the flowers were blooming and no insects came even though they were swarming the blueberries.
I spent over an hour hand-pollinating this bush this morning and now 3 different species of bees are visiting the flowers.
WERE THEY WATCHING ME???
Habropoda laboriosa, blueberry digger bee
Osmia taurus, tuarus mason bee
Apis mellifera, western honey bee
@jblue They were afraid to go first.
@SunnJax I kinda wonder if this is true. I was checking it for pollinators since it started blooming.
It bloomed last year, but nothing touched the flowers and so I got no fruit. (It was in a different location.) I didn’t want to leave it up to the nature this year and waste a good harvest.
@jblue Maybe the pollen wasn't quite ripe?