Pollen Collection
Apparently, Karl von Frisch and other bee researchers have observed, individual honey bees vary in their efficiency in packing pollen into the pollen basket, some more efficient, others less; it takes an individual worker bee from three to eighteen minutes to complete a pollen load and return to the hive.
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