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The busy honeybee works overtime in spring and summer doing her thing for the plant world.
Without them, many flowers, farm crops, and orchards would disappear.
At least 50 cultivated plants in the United States require insect pollination to survive, the National Geographic Society says. They include alfalfa, sweet clover, watermelons, apples, and cucumbers. TRAINED FOR SPECIALTY
The hardworking honey bee may become a crop specialist Naturalists hope to develop a special strain of the insect to work exclusively on alfalfa blooms, The plant is almost wholly dependent on bees for pollination. The honeybee (Apis Mellifera) is uniquely adapted to gather and carry pollen and nectar. A long trunklike proboscis prospects for clover nectar. Millions of bristly hairs, some even jutting from the eyes, attract pollen dust. To obtain a tiny cargo of nectar, a bee visits hundreds of flowers.
An energetic collector often averages 10 flights on good days. A trained observer watched one worker bring home 47 loads of pollen in a single day. An aerodynamic marvel, the honeybee can airlift a payload weighing almost as much as itself. Tens of thousands of worker bees, all sterile females, gather the
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