They make Bee Bread! 🐝🍞 When bees return to the hive with pollen on their legs, they carefully remove it by rubbing their hind legs together, depositing the pollen pellets into the cells surrounding the brood area. Some of the stored pollen is consumed by the bees themselves, while the surplus is transformed into a nutritious food source called "bee bread" by mixing it with nectar, enzymes, and other secretions. Bees cannot survive on honey alone, as honey primarily provides carbohydrates. The

Science Behind Bee Pollen

Native bee dives into pollen 🐝🌻

Have you seen these cute pollen bellies before? Some of you may have seen bees with full pollen load on their hind legs before, which are also known as pollen pants. For a while I thought that's how all bees collect pollen, until I spotted one leaf-cutter bee in my garden with bright yellow pollen on her underbelly. 😍 Some bees like mason bees and leaf-cutter bees have dense, branched hairs on the underside of their abdomens, known as scopa. When the bee lands on a flower, it brushes against th