I went out for a little walk this morning and found the first willow catkins - Pusekätzchen! They are an important flower for bees at this time of year, not just for honey bees but for solitary bees, bumblebees and solitary wasps.
I love how the name Pusekätzchen is perfectly intelligible to English-speakers; our prevalent term for the downy gray buds of Salix caprea is “pussy willow”.
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