Peter asks<Are they not assisting the pollination by dislodging pollen
from the male
flowers, some of which will then drift onto the female flowers?>
I've seen bees on sweet corn, and their activity was creating a rainfall
of pollen.
Whereas I've seen bees collecting pollen from sweet corn, I've never seen
more than an occasional bee on field corn. Tom Hamilton, an Idaho/MT
beekeeper said that he's seen bees on sweet corn.
I've seen bees collecting pollen from grass during our dry season, and we
found pollen from rushes and reeds in bee-collected pollen near cooling
ponds by the Hanford nuclear reactors before they were shut down following the
Chernobyl incident.
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