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However, there is an easy way for pollen grains from different kinds of flowers to get stuck together: bees. “There are plenty of accounts of bees foraging or more than one species,” Hunt said.

Pollen Grains Pollens are released from the male flowers of flowering plants and their size varies from 10-100 microns. They are tiny, granular male reproductive cells found in the flowering plants.

In contrast, buzz-pollinated flowers encourage bees to eat the pollen directly and hope some grains will make it to another flower. The evolutionary strategy is baffling to scientists.

High-speed video showed that pollen grains from exploding flowers functioned like missiles to knock existing pollen away. “It’s almost like there’s a division of labor for pollen.

Negative consequences of the consumption of pollen grains by the invertebrate fauna are thought to be negligible, as only a very small fraction of the 1.6 × 10 5 pollen grains per flower is consumed.