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Addicted to Pollen Photograph by Dino Martins Among the most important and straightforward love affairs in nature are those between bees and flowers. Bees visit flowers and get dusted with pollen as they forage. They carry the pollen around, pollinating other flowers, and in the process make the world go round. Flowers vary from open and accessible to complex contraptions that bees have to learn to operate. Here is a beautiful leaf-cutter bee (Gronocera) in Western Kenya visiting the flower of a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia).

Addicted to Pollen

Photograph by Dino Martins

Among the most important and straightforward love affairs in nature are those between bees and flowers. Bees visit flowers and get dusted with pollen as they forage. They carry the pollen around, pollinating other flowers, and in the process make the world go round. Flowers vary from open and accessible to complex contraptions that bees have to learn to operate.

Here is a beautiful leaf-cutter bee (Gronocera) in Western Kenya visiting the flower of a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia).

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