Bumblebee (family Bombini) prising open a snapdragon (Linaria triornithophora) to feed from the nectar within. In doing so it will pick up pollen from

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Bumblebee (family Bombini) prising open a snapdragon (Linaria triornithophora) to feed from the nectar within. In doing so it will pick up pollen from the flower and deposit pollen it has already picked up; some is visible as a fine dust on its abdomen. Each pollen grain contains a male gamete which, when deposited on another plant of the same species, can fertilise an ovule and produce seeds.

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Keywords: animal, bee, biological, biology, botanical, botany, bumblebee, closed, drinking, entering, fauna, feeding, flower, insect, insecta, linaria, nature, nectar, petal, petals, plant, pollen, pollinating, pollination, reproduction, snapdragon, triornithophora, wildlife, zoological, zoology