The bee and the flower
By Raúl Reyes
@karibe (686)
Venezuela
March 5, 2019 9:36am CST
Even if you do not get along with them, even if you fear their painful sting, and although you despised them as a dangerous threat to their physical integrity, bees are the most important pollinators of flowering plants or magnolophytes.
It is estimated that one third of human foods are pollinated by insects, mainly bees.
These small winged insects are attracted to places where there are flowering plants from which they collect pollen and nectar, and use the former mainly as food for larvae and the latter as energy material.
How much do you like bees or not? Have you had any bad or good experiences with them?
Note: I am the author of the photographs that make up the collage I show
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
5 Mar 19
I have gotten a few stings from bees in my life and am careful when they are around. My daughter is allergic and a bee sting can be deadly. She needs to carry epinephrine injections with her at all times.
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@karibe (686)
• Venezuela
5 Mar 19
Oh! So, you had a bad experience with them. Well, being this way with your daughter you have to be very careful with them. I have also been bitten a few times. On one occasion, my father-in-law and a son of mine were attacked by bees called "African bees" because they went to the nest to remove the honey and the situation was very dramatic because they were bitten by many bees.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
5 Mar 19
Those are lovely flowers and like they say bees are getting far and few between here also.
Up to now I had been letting all the wild flowers grow in the garden to a certain height till I moved..
That way the bees and butterflies had a better chance of feeding off something.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
6 Mar 19
@karibe
The owner of the house did not like my idea very much and I did start to do the garden but then I moved house and wanted to leave the wild flowers there right up to the last minute.
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