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Collecting on Yellow. Honeybee, Apis mellifera, on Corylopsis spicata, Winter Hazel, Siegerpark, Sloten, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsstuin,

Winter Hazel, Corylopsis spicata, hails from east Asia, especially China and Japan. Spicata was introduced to Europe and more precisely The Netherlands in the nineteenth century by Von Siebold, whom I've often mentioned in these pages: e.g. www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/8714836253/in/photolis....

Look at the tightly packed pollen on the leg of this Spring Bee!

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