Leaving Lawn for Bees

I would if I had a lot of clover.
I enjoy looking at them with the kids.

yes I leave almost 2 acres in clover. It adds nitrogen to soil, every herbivore eats it and as you said it attracts and feeds honeybees (and many other pollinators). Honestly my goal in life is to convert all 6 acres to be naturalized. I’m doing it bit by bit by planting trees that shade out the turf grass, letting clover go wild, building wildflower beds and planting wild grass seed. The latter is a bit more difficult as the birds get most of it

I make my backyard as pristine as possible to give my kids a good turf to play on.

The front yard I don't care about and have let nature do its thing. The drawback is that over the years, burweed has been brought in due to it being in the soccer fields where my kids' games were. I'm now having to fight that and the clover and aster will get caught in the crossfire.

I'm not worried because there are plenty of other resources around me for the bees to collect from as evidenced by my hives having fresh nectar last time I looked in them 2 months ago.

I might not mow my back yard till April. It’s loaded in Heals All and I actually spread 50lbs of Crimson Clover last month. Gradually converting as much as I can to Yarrow and Ajuga.

I keep the edges trimmed.

I keep bees and use to not give a damn about things like this. Now I feel like a full blown treehugger when I see people mowing down fields of henbit in early spring or goldenrod in fall. Don’t get me started on mosquito trucks.

I have never done this, but I also noticed a shitload of bees on clover in my yard today. I’ll probably just stagger the first mowing of each a week to keep them with some flowers.

My mother-in-law has two hives down near our driveway. We live on an acre adjoining them. I cut mine this past week, but left about 2.5 acres uncut that is full of clovers and other wildflowers. We will cut the grass around the clover patches until mid April or cut every other patch. We throw wildflower seeds around the garden, near the hives, and at the base of some of the trees. I used to care way more about the appearance of my yard when it was smaller but it is too much work at this point, and I'm happy to just get it knocked down once a week. I minimize how much spray I use around the place as well.