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Ep. 415 - Inside the Minds of Bees

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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How to Be a Buzz Pollinator

There are about eight to 10% of the world's flowering plants that don't have normal anthers. Bumblebees quite commonly do it, and so do many ground nesting bees. Not all bees can do it; for example, honeybees cannot. But once a female gets on those flowers, they bite into it with their mandibles,. They hang on for dear life - using the power plant of the flight muscles inside their thorax.

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