Bee Pollen
What is Pollen?
Pollen is the male counterpart of flower seeds. For fertilization to occur within the plant, the pollen is required. This tiny particle is formed at the free end of the stamen which is located right in the center of the blossom.
Bee Pollen is the name given to the food of young bees. Forty percent of its make up is protein, which is why it is considered as one of nature’s most nourishing food. Aside from protein, it has nearly every nutrient that is needed by man. It gives an incredibly healthy boost to any diet. Approximately twenty from the forty percent of protein are free amino acids that are already ready to be consumed by the body.
How is it gathered?
Although gathering bee pollen may sound easy, it is actually the total opposite. Once a honeybee lands on top of a flower, she makes herself comfortable and nimbly scrapes off the loose pollen from the stamen with her front appendages and jaws. Once she has the pollen in her crutches, she moistens it with some honey she brought with her from her hive.
The thick and broadened tarsal parts of her legs have bristles called pollen combs, and honeybees use these combs to brush the powdery substance from her cat and extremities. Honeybees act so skillfully when they start pressing with their auricles, using them as hammers, as they collect pollen into their pollen baskets. These pollen baskets, in turn, are brimmed with long hair and are located just outside of their tibias. Once these concave areas have been filled, the microscopic dust then becomes one golden granule.
Honeybees are practically programmed to leave the hive to gather pollen and then carry their collections back to the hive to serve as food for the whole colony. In short, the honeybees do double duty.
Some might think that honeybees only take care of themselves and sting the rest. This is not true. Contrary to what many might believe, honeybees are actually responsible for pollinating eighty percent of the green vegetation. When they jump from one flower to another or fly over some flowers, they transfer some bits of their gathered pollen into other plants and flowers. Voila! Pollination has been accomplished. Simply put, without the honeybees, plants will not stay as long as humans require them to stay.
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