Pollen covered honey bee
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Pollen covered honey bee
Image: © Kay Atherton Taken: 2 Aug 2007
The honey bee is covered with white pollen grains from Malva moschata, the musk mallow. She will carefully put as much of this as possible into the honey sacs on her legs before returning to the hive.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.024291
Longitude
-7.262758