Red Nutrition. Honeybee, Apis mellifera, on Erodium circutarium, Redstem Filaree, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
If you've given foraging Bees a closer look you'll have seen them carrying pollens of various colors. Mostly if you're new at this they'll be yellow or white or greenish. Here's one who's gathering Red Stuff from the flowers of Redstem Filaree. Now, if you were to open a beehive to examine the storage cells for pollen, you'd notice that the various colors are stored separately. Scientists don't know yet why this is so and to what different (?) uses those various colors are put.
Red Nutrition. Honeybee, Apis mellifera, on Erodium circutarium, Redstem Filaree, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
If you've given foraging Bees a closer look you'll have seen them carrying pollens of various colors. Mostly if you're new at this they'll be yellow or white or greenish. Here's one who's gathering Red Stuff from the flowers of Redstem Filaree. Now, if you were to open a beehive to examine the storage cells for pollen, you'd notice that the various colors are stored separately. Scientists don't know yet why this is so and to what different (?) uses those various colors are put.