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Default Different honeys

Mary Fisher wrote:

Here is then, some of the answer, without the hard words.

Some flowers produce nectar, which seems to have no other function than to
attract insects, which accidentally collect pollen on their body hairs. When
the insects go to other flowers they accidentally transfer the pollen to
that flower's receptive organ, the pollen fertilises the ova to make seeds.


snip super essay about bee-keeping

Thanks Mary, that's great! I've always fancied keeping bees, now I feel
I know loads more about the subject.

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