Dave-in Indiana USA writes: <What type of trees attract honey bees? <I would appreciate it if you would use the common names of trees. <I want to plant trees that attract the honey bee, but I cannot find many <that do. Something that every new beekeeper should do is put a hive on a scale and make a graph of weight per week throughout a season. On the graph, the beekeeper should also write down what is blooming. This exercise is both fun and enlightening. I have seen plans for mounting a hive so that the back half sits on a bathroom-type scale. Lucky people may find a doctor's office-type scale in the trash and be able to mount a hive on the scale platform (then they can measure the height, too!) Tim Tim Sterrett Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA [log in to unmask]