I see the bees carrying pollen attached to both their hind legs,
like little yellow buckets.
I learn bees work 6 to 8 hours finding the pollen and flying
it to their hives with those pollen pellets stuck to their legs.
I wonder how they got the kind of endurance that enables
them to fly with those pellets weighing 30% of their weight
and fly the six to eight hours daily with those heavy loads,
perhaps they start as bee young’uns and carrying only
10% of their weight and gradually work up to the 30%. And
I wonder if they get paid for their work.
Maybe they get paid piecemeal (pollenmeal?), or a
good hourly rate with overtime after 6 hours.
I hope they don’t do all that labor-intensive work for free.
Bob Boyd