Scientists recently reported that those hairs are water repellent. Hairs that cover the surface of a bee’s tongue enhance its flexibility and durability during feeding. Image Credit: Jiangkun Wei.

Quiet but pleasing flourishes carry you along: the bees are like "flying penises" spreading seed from flower to flower, "their bodies ... thickly covered with plumose hairs that efficiently catch ...

A group of scientists and students have studied the circadian rhythm of a bee gynandromorph ... and a robust hindleg plumose with branched hairs for transporting pollen. It also had a sting ...

states that yellow-faced bees are known "for their yellow-to-white facial markings." They look like small wasps, according to the rule, except for their "plumose [branched] hairs on the body that ...

But it gets awfully messy. When bees prowl around a flower, perhaps drinking nectar for immediate energy, pollen falls all over them and sticks to the hairs that cover their bodies - even their eyes.