The terrace is alive to the bee-buzz. We’re watching these bees happily foraging around flowers, searching for food and unknowingly carrying pollen around and germinating plants. They pass on the male gametes, the sperm cells, onto the waiting stamens and eso es, it is as simple as that. Fertilization. No dating, or courting, as my mother would have said. Just a bit of buzzing around, sometimes it happens on the same flower, which seems a bit incestuous.
5 to remember
el polen – the pollen
la polinización – the pollination
sin saberlo – unknowingly
eso es– that’s it
incestuoso/a – incestuous
‘Concise Insect Guide’ [UK: Bloomsbury]
And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
The terrace is alive to the bee-buzz #Bees in #Spain http://wp.me/p3dYp6-1L5 via @Spanish_Valley
Honey bees? We need these little workers.
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Not enough of them around these days. SD
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Just read your caption more carefully – very funny!
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🙂 SD
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