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| The ventral side of the bee in image DHJanzen101032.jpg above is extremely hairy and pollen here is densely packed between the hairs. While this allows the female bee to carry much pollen, it is also evident that a sticky stigma brushed across this surface will be pollinated (with the right or wrong species of pollen, depending on which species of flowers are being visited by the bee). When the bee starts its rounds of the flowers in the morning, it is relatively clean of pollen but after an hour of visiting flowers, it is essentially a flying pollen ball. | ||
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