Honeybee removing the pollen from her legs in our hive. Honeybees collect pollen by mixing it with regurgitate nectar to form a pellet. They put the pellet in a “pollen basket” on their back legs. An average bee colony will make 1.6 million trips to collect 3.2 million pollen pellets per year. One pellet per leg! Busy bees! #honeybees #bees # pollination #pollenpower #amazing #insidethehive #beehives #insects #museum | Museum of Natural History | Facebook

Meet the fascinating Blue-Banded Bee! This solitary bee with bright turquoise-blue stripes doesn't produce honey, but it plays a crucial role in the world of pollination. Blue-Banded Bees perform buzz pollination—the same technique needed to extract pollen from the flowers of tomatoes, eggplants, and many other vegetables. While ordinary bees can't do this, these small but powerful pollinator specialists help increase plant yields with their high-pitched buzzing. These bees build nests in the gr

How do different bees collect pollen? 🐝Honeybees collect pollen on their legs. They have hairy legs, and as they explore flowers, the pollen grains stick to the hairs on their legs. They then groom their legs to pack the pollen into specialized structures called pollen baskets. 🐝Bumblebees also collect pollen on their legs. Similar to honeybees, they have hairy legs that provide a surface for pollen grains to stick to. Bumblebees gather pollen on their hind legs, and the grains accumulate, cre

537K views · 9.3K reactions | Watch the bee with the yellow pollen pants!  This is how bees offload pollen. She uses a little spur on her middle legs to spear to pollen basket and knock it off into the cell.  A reminder for beeks in the northern hemisphere, hives are building up and spring management needs to be done  #beesarecool #pollenpants #pollen #welovebees | Flow Hive | Facebook

11K views · 346 reactions | Pollen pants, pollen baskets, and pollen pantaloons are some of the many names given to the area on a bee's leg that she uses to carry pollen back to the hive. The pollen basket is a smooth cavity on the surface of her hind leg (officially known as the corbicula). It is surrounded by a fringe of hairs. A single hair in the middle pins the pollen load, moistened with honey or nectar to ensure its stickiness. Bees are so amazing! ♥️ | Flow Hive | Facebook

Honey bees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight... and our sweet tooth. But they also need pollen for protein. Watch this amazing video to witness how they trap, brush and pack it into baskets on their legs (pollen-pants) to make a special food called bee bread. 🐝 🍞 ❤️ #beefriendly #pollinators #nature #honey | Bee Friendly