Comment by actionfromafar
10 hours ago
Thanks, I never thought about bees like that. They certainly can use many types of flowers, as evidenced by various sorts of honey. Nitpick: some spiders are pretty darn intelligent and even seem to dream when they sleep, apparently.
> They certainly can use many types of flowers
Note there are various species who're oligolectic meaning they only collect pollen and nectar - and hence pollinate only - a single family or sometimes even single species of plants. Moreover they are usually also better at pollinating than more generalistic species especially honeybees.
Now I am musing about spider nightmares.
Thousands of tiny humans crawling all over you...
Or perhaps all of your thousands of children being in peril, having found themselves on a murderous human, with no obvious path to escape as the gigantic scary human swaths hundreds at a time?
There's a reason the average spider sleepwalks into 8 human mouths a year.
One spider, 8 mouths: what are they pollinating?
You really didn't have to share this.