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Figure 10,  A honey bee seeks nectar from the base of flowers whose ripened anthers dust the bee with pollen.

Pollen is carried among the hairs on the body of the honey bee to another flower of the same species.

Here the bee may brush against the stigma leaving some pollen, completing the act of cross-pollination.

Diagram by Charles W. Gouget

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