Bee Collecting Pollen On Legs

It sticks to their antennae their legs their faces their bodies.

Bee collecting pollen on legs. A honey bee moistens the forelegs with its protruding tongue and brushes the pollen that has collected on its head body and forward appendages to the hind legs. Take a look at these fascinating little creatures as they collect pollen for their bee bread. See them flying spinning sometimes colliding as they come in. They become one giant pollen magnet.

Bees have several anatomical features that are uniquely devoted to efficient pollen collecting. The pollen is stuffed into hairy receptacles on their hind legs called corbiculae. Being attached like this and having in mind that they are flying through the air they become negatively charged with static electricity. Once back at the hive the workers stuff the pollen into an awaiting cell.

The bees then rub their rear legs together and rake the pollen into the pollen press on the opposite leg. One of the ways of collecting and storing pollen is on the bee s hind legs. Because they are extremely fuzzy animals pollen sticks to them every time they visit flowers. Most bees collect just pollen or just nectar on any trip but a few carry both at the same time.

Pollen combs are hairy parts on the inside of a bee s hind legs that are used to remove pollen stuck on the body. Bumble bees and honey bees have a very interesting system for storing pollen which begins with pollen collection. Buzz pollination is a special technique for dislodging pollen from certain types of plants and bumble bees are among the few species of bee capable of doin. Honeybees get covered in pollen when collecting nectar from the flower that s how pollination happens as they then go to another flower and some of the pollen on their body rubs off.

A single bee can carry about half her own body weight in pollen. Long hairs on the bees legs helped hold the pollen pellets in place as the animals flew the team reported last week at the 70th annual meeting of the american physical society division of fluid. The pollen is getting attached to the furry body of the bee.