Which flowers feed the bees month by month, and how forage shapes the honey.
In the highland rainy season, days of continuous cloud and rain can keep stingless bees inside and leave colonies short of food. Watch for low traffic
In the Central Highlands coffee blooms once the dry season breaks, usually early in the year, and each flush lasts only a few days. Stingless bee colo
Stingless bees do visit coffee flowers and carry coffee pollen, and studies in several tropical countries suggest bee visits generally help coffee set
Wild sunflower, Tithonia diversifolia, turns highland roadsides yellow around the end of the rainy season, usually late in the year. Stingless bees wo
Stingless bees gather sticky resin from wounded bark, buds and sap of trees, carrying it home in their pollen baskets. They mix it with wax to build t
Highland orchards planted between coffee rows give stingless bees extra flowers in the dry months. Avocado suits tiny bees best because its small, ope
MoraBee is the international name of Ong Moc, a stingless bee farm in Ta Dung, Lam Dong, among forest and coffee gardens: unblended honey in clean jars, starter colonies, and farm visits.