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Kōrero: Beekeeping

Collecting pollen

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Collecting pollen

While gathering nectar, honeybees also collect pollen, which sticks to their leg hairs. This bee has pollen-laden ‘baskets’ on its legs.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 6 June 2006

by Glenn Jeffrey

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Allan Gillingham, Beekeeping – Bee activities and communication, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15745/collecting-pollen (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allan Gillingham, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.