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馃悵... Honeybee unloading a haul of pollen

bushkillPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago

馃拑 Doing the Pollen Dance

Here is a video I had taken and forgotten about. It was taken through the glass pane of an observation hive with my cell phone so the quality is not super. I decided to share because I think you will find it interesting. A worker bee with a load of pollen searches for just the right cell to unload in. Once unloaded you can see a short period where house bees start to pack it into the cell. You can see other cells near by that have the pollen pellets packed into the cells. One other point is that the video is shown in real time, so although it may appear that it was sped up, it was not. Bees can move pretty fast, especially when they are on a mission.

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