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Two Sweet Facts Unknown to Me About Bees and Pollen Until I Saw This Photo
1. The tiny, comb-like hairs that cover a bee’s body and legs generate static electricity as it flies: enough to match the typical current running through a household appliance four times over. When the bee lands, buzzing not just with enthusiastic wing beats but with this marvelous energy, pollen—lovely and light—zooms straight towards it like hairs to a rubbed balloon. Voila!
2. Bees, like several other insects, have chemical receptors on their forelimbs that are believed to be able to detect flavor. When a bee alights on a flower and footsies around inside it, it’s doing a kind of tasting. Tasting! As it dances!
Bees. They just cannot be beat.
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