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Why does pollen stick?

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15y ago

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Bees brush the pollen from their bodies down into special parts of their hind legs called corbiculae. These are dished areas which are surrounded by hairs to hold the pollen.

When they get back to the hive they put the pollen into honeycomb cells for storage.

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Hi pollen sticks because it is a unique property it has developed. The sticky pollen helps the transaction of pollenating . It is made sticky so it would stick to a pollinator eg a bee the bee takes it to another plant or the sam one and it come offf in the female organ of a plant .

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Te bumble bee's fur is a kind of stickiness to make the pollen stick to the bumble bee.

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Bees knees or clothes. Things like that.

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