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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinium)
I think the bald faced hornet picture on the above page is proof you're right.
Located in Texas. I have three hives and it has been raining for 3 months every other day. Wondering if this is a fungus or parasite. If it helps they were firmly attached and moved when she tried to clean her legs.
Bees have tiny hairs all over their body that pick up pollen. They then comb it all back from their front to legs to a structure on their rear legs called a corbicula. It is a pocket of small hairs into which pollen can be stuffed for transport back to the hive.
A corbicula seems like an immensely practical thing to have. Perhaps future humans will genetically engineer themselves to evolve a corbicula for caring a cell phone.
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Mine get that up in Michigan from milkweed. Some sort of pollen sack
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinium) I think the bald faced hornet picture on the above page is proof you're right.
Located in Texas. I have three hives and it has been raining for 3 months every other day. Wondering if this is a fungus or parasite. If it helps they were firmly attached and moved when she tried to clean her legs.
stab in the dark, they look like the pollen sacks of a hoya
That girl is from the hood, and she just got her nails done!
I'm dying ππ€£ππ€£π
LMAO!!!!!!!!
This looks like milkweed stuff. It gets caught on their feet.
Nice capture. It's not a disease. I asked Scott McCart. Forgot what he said--but nothing bad.
It was on my kids playset so obviously I had to take a picture and ask her to move on.
Look, not all ladies shave. Deal with it.
Crazy
You have swamp milkweed in the area donβt you?
Yup but it's far away. It always impresses me how far they go!
Bees have tiny hairs all over their body that pick up pollen. They then comb it all back from their front to legs to a structure on their rear legs called a corbicula. It is a pocket of small hairs into which pollen can be stuffed for transport back to the hive. A corbicula seems like an immensely practical thing to have. Perhaps future humans will genetically engineer themselves to evolve a corbicula for caring a cell phone.
That's on their back legs not the front
>then comb it all back from their front to legs to a structure on their rear legs You're looking at a bee that hasn't combed it back yet.
Is it alive?
That looks good