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Little Miss Bumble and Her Pollen Baskets

	Little Miss Bumble and Her Pollen Baskets F7.1, 1/1600 On the bumblebee’s legs, especially the hind legs, there are a range of combs and brushes. The female bee uses these to gather the pollen that sticks to her hair and body together into one mass which she then stores in her pollen baskets. Workers and queens have two pollen baskets, one each on the outside surface of their hind legs. The pollen basket is easy to spot; when it is empty it is a large, flat shiny area with spiky hairs around the edge, and when it is full it contains pollen which is often yellow, orange or red. When a pollen basket is full it can weigh as much as 0.01 g and contain as much as 1,000,000 pollen grains. Terry Cervi

Wondeful macro! Thanks for the info as well. Really superb capture!

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