Bee swarm in Rosyth? Help is a minute away.

Rosyth is a planned early-twentieth-century town on the Firth of Forth built to house workers at the Royal Naval Dockyard, whose basin and dry docks still dominate the southern shoreline of the peninsula. The dockyard, now used for ship-repair and the servicing of Trident submarines, is one of the largest engineering complexes in Scotland, and the town grew around it in a grid of Edwardian and interwar terraces designed by a planned-town architect on the model of garden-city principles. Caledonian MacBrayne's Rosyth-Zeebrugge ferry service uses the port for freight crossings. The town's proximity to Dunfermline means it forms a continuous urban area to the north, but Rosyth retains a distinct identity centred on the dockyard and its naval heritage. The Firth of Forth shoreline below the dockyard and along the Forth Road Bridge approach provides hawthorn scrub, sea-aster saltmarsh and elder forage; the parks and mature garden trees of the older residential streets carry the spring and summer flows. Oilseed rape on the Fife arable land west and north of the town gives the dominant April–May flow; white clover on the improved green spaces and parkland through June and July sustains colonies. Sycamore on the older street plantings provides the main early-summer source.

Oilseed rape is the defining early Fife flow across the central plain. Raspberry canes on the Howe of Fife add an unusual early-summer crop. Sycamore and lime carry May into June in St Andrews, Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Cupar. The Lomond Hills and parts of the north Fife moors give bell and ling heather. Coastal sea-aster and samphire along the East Neuk add seasoning; ivy on old fisher-town gables closes the year.