honey bee basitarsi on blueberry stigma
A honey bee (Apis mellifera) forages on blueberry flowers. While the bee forages on one flower in a cluster, the rear leg of the bee is contacting the stigma of a different flower in the cluster, illustrating a behavior that permits honey bees to successfully serve as pollinators of highbush blueberry crops. (Photo credit: George Hoffman, Ph.D.).