We depend on bees to make flowers fruit and plants thrive

Blanketing our countryside in late April were seas of white and yellow blossoms providing a wonderful vista if you were out and about. 

This profusion of colour is not only a wonder to behold, but to the honeybee it is a paradise — supplying the bees with early sources of nectar for honey and wax production.

The fields of white that one sees, particularly throughout Tipperary, Cork and Wexford, are the apple orchards in majestic bloom. Without the help of bees and other insects these flowers would wither and drop and no fruit would set.