Dick Allen wrote:
> Beekeepers:
>
> I suppose you guys down there in the Lower 48 are putting on another hive
> box already. Yesterday, May 4, up here in Anchorage, latitude N 61°, I saw
> my first dandelion blossom of the season. Today, I saw maybe a dozen or so
> more. Some have commented in the past on the high price Alaskans receive
> for their honey. Now you know why.

Here at N 63° The willow is long over, maple is finished, coltsfoot
nearly over, dandelions are out as are wood anemones. The winberries are
starting to flower and the wild raspberry buds are fat and will soon
open. In the garden all the spring bulbs are either over or in full
bloom and cultivated and wild fruit trees are beginning to bloom.
Temperature low twenties and the bees are working hard with ten frames
of brood and their first extra box!

Everything is 3 to 4 weeks earlier than normal.

cheers
Tony
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Anthony N Morgan,
Førsteamanuensis
Institutt for Elektroteknikk
Høgskolen i Sør-Trøndelag
N-7005 Trondheim, Norway
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Tlf. 73 55 96 04
Fax. 73 55 95 81
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Lat 63 deg 26 N.
Long 10 deg 45 E
Apis mellifera carnica
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