Wednesday 4 June 2008

Pollen


This is a bee with the pollen all over its hairy body, sometimes the legs look really heavy and yet it flys on to the hive where the work is in progess. All the pollen gets transferred into the various plants along the way and the bees dance they 8 figured dance to tell they other bees where they found the pollen. This communication is vital to the health of the hive and the reason for writing the blog. If the bees get drunk they are not able to do the dance very well. They hive keepers are saying to cut off the chemical in the insecticides and then the bees will come.

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