Female worker bees collect pollen from various flowers. They wet the small pollen grains with nectar/saliva and pack it on their hind legs on structures called "pollen baskets". (though they are not really "baskets" but stiff hairs.) Back at the hive, this pollen will be stored and used to feed young bees and nurse bees that have to produce brood food for young larva. How neat is that ?Sunday, March 9, 2014
Pollen isn't always Yellow !
Female worker bees collect pollen from various flowers. They wet the small pollen grains with nectar/saliva and pack it on their hind legs on structures called "pollen baskets". (though they are not really "baskets" but stiff hairs.) Back at the hive, this pollen will be stored and used to feed young bees and nurse bees that have to produce brood food for young larva. How neat is that ?
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