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Stunning Images of Fully Loaded Bees

From bikes to trucks, we’ve featured more than a few unfortunate folks on EG who look like they’re loaded up to a more than uncomfortable degree. We’ve even shown ants looking like they could use a lightening of their load. Now it’s the turn of the bees. While these insects don’t need to be as strong in the lifting department as their antsy cousins, when our buzzing buddies are collecting pollen they can still look more than a little encumbered.

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13 Beautiful Images of Pollen Under the Microscope

Never mind that they look like virulent viruses or a fetish from someone’s kinky imagination; these little nuggets are the grains of life. We’re used to seeing bees’ knees thickly coated in them, or being told on summer weather reports that their count is going through the roof, but it’s a rare thing indeed to see pollen under the microscope, up close and personal and in all its juicy detail.

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Are the Stripes on Bees a Little Prisoner’s Uniform?

He’s being a good citizen. Other ones, not so much. Image from aussiegail. Well, flatly, no, they’re not–but maybe they should be, according to Ellouise Leadbeater, a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. The behavioral ecologist got her idea from one of Darwin’s journals, [...]

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