Have you heard of POLLEN PANTS 👖🌼🐝?! Some bees, such as bumblebees, have some handy sacs on the sides of their legs which they stuff with pollen as they harvest this protein filled snack from flowers. After grabbing onto a flower, and vigorously shaking their flight muscles to shake themselves and the flower, pollen will release and fall onto the bee’s fuzzy body (this process is called buzz pollination). The pollen is then combed down while being mixing with saliva, then is stored in the pol

Native bee dives into pollen 🐝🌻

Have you seen these cute pollen bellies before? Some of you may have seen bees with full pollen load on their hind legs before, which are also known as pollen pants. For a while I thought that's how all bees collect pollen, until I spotted one leaf-cutter bee in my garden with bright yellow pollen on her underbelly. 😍 Some bees like mason bees and leaf-cutter bees have dense, branched hairs on the underside of their abdomens, known as scopa. When the bee lands on a flower, it brushes against th