What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. I am back again with Dave Hunter of Crown Bees.

We started off this week with a little bit of a talk about you know looking at the patterns of

nature and natural systems then we moved into why we need bees on the high level why

what is the role of bees in nature and so now what we're talking about is how pollen is carried by bees and

we learned yesterday that there's many different types many more than you would possibly

imagine and so I'm curious actually Dave if the way that bees

carry pollen is different based on the species and if so how different it might be

You're learning. It is different. When we're going to use the I'm going to say the

awesome honeybee as an example of what we all think. Okay. So when we see the honeybee, we've seen these pictures of these big yellow pockets of pollen on the back of the legs and we all, the farmers going, thumbs up, go spread that pollen. Well gosh years ago I was speaking with

Dr. Eric Musum out of UC Davis. He said, Dave, when you see that yellow

pollen on a hind legs of honey bees he says that's not that's not pollen that's bee food

It's gotten sticky

It's purposely there in a very hard way that nothing falls off.

You say that's destined for the hive.

Oh, okay.

And so then you kind of dig into, well what's going on with the honeybee and why does that actually happen?

The honeybee is unbelievably sophisticated. There's 50,000, 60,000 bees in a hive and they're thriving and they're all supporting the Queen.

And there's 1,000 to 1,500 eggs laid a day.

About 1,000 to 1,500 bees die a day, so they're replacing them all the time, okay?

But so tiny, you know, 1500 mounds of Paul, about maybe the end of a pencil, you know, they raise around a pencil, that many

mounds of pollen are needed per day.

So these bees have learned how to communicate. They send their sisters in every point of the

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