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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Famous quotes containing the words pollen and/or collection:
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
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