Honeybees love the persimmon bloom. Honeybees
are the best pollination insect for them because unlike solitary bees they need large amounts of nectar to support the colony so one honeybee will transfer pollen from the distant male tree to the female tree. Solitary bees just need a little pollen to make their nests and usually all these tiny localized
local bees visit only one tree and of
course get all theyll need. . In that case the tree would not get pollinated. Other fruit trees need cross pollination from other trees of the same type also but not for the same reason.
What I am saying here is the honeybees will benefit the persimmon greatly. The honeybee not so much. The reason is persimmon only bloom for about a week once a year. They don't have that much time to help the bees and they only bloom very early in the springtime which is the time most everything else is already blooming as well. To be honest the
persimmon fruit is great benefit and necessary to wildlife but there are much better perreneal plants that bloom much longer and at times other plants are not blooming. One of the very best is Vitex Negundo. Not Vitex Agnus Castus though, it's only an ornamental and doesn't attract honeybees and very few pollinators at all.
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