odd beehavior: bees harvesting Rust fungus -Puccinia- not pollen

topic posted Mon, September 10, 2007 - 2:37 PM by  Chili
so the Oxalis (wood sorrel) meadow is long done flowering and is succumbing to its end of season and a healthy dose of Puccinia rust fungus and I have been watching bees harvesting the rust all day! their scopa are not filled with golden pollen, but with neon orange rust fungus~!
what's up with that? I took a photo which I will post but I'm afraid it is difficult to clearly capture bee deetail with my crappy digital camera.
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Chili

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