ON February 11, a mild and sunny day, my bees were working busily on Eranthis ... and is compressed and forced out into the “corbicula”, or pollen-basket, on the outside of the tibia by ...

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The bee then combs the pollen off its hairy body into little baskets on its legs, called corbiculae. This way of gathering pollen is called buzz pollination. Most of the pollen collected will be taken ...