After virtually vanishing from the farm and all over the country for the past two years, the honey bees have come back  in full force  for the last flower of the summer – goldenrod.

Two or three bees cover each plant and there are  acres and acres of goldenrod, so I guesstimate hundreds of thousands of wild honey bees.    If you look closely at the bee’s hind legs, you can see the orange pollen baskets  that they transport the pollen in back to the  hive.