Going for the GOLD!

Pollen that is ~ to make HONEY!

Reading up about Honey bees and I thought it was so interesting:

Honey bees are a vital part of the ecosystem. Without them, pollination doesn't occur, plants don't grow and things collapse from there on up the food chain. Not to mention that without honey bees we wouldn't have any honey!

Workers are about 12 mm long and highly specialized for what they do, with a structure called a pollen basket (or corbiculum) on each hind leg, an extra stomach for storing and transporting nectar or honey and four pairs of special glands that secrete beeswax on the underside of their abdomen. They have a straight, barbed stinger which can only be used once. It rips out of their abdomen after use, which kills the bee.