Your Avocado Toast Owes Everything to a Bumblebee!

from The Secret Pollinators · host Kelly from Montana

An avocado tree produces a million flowers to make a handful of fruit — and each flower switches gender across two days. Honeybees don't even like the flowers. So who's actually pollinating your avocado toast? Meet the yellow-faced bumble bee, California's most common native bumble bee and the unsung star of avocado orchards, plus the ultra-green sweat bee, tiny carpenter bees, and hoverflies doing the real work. Your brunch has a secret pollination team - and they deserve the credit.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #AvocadoPollination #AvocadoToast #BumbleBees #YellowFacedBumbleBee #NativeBees #SaveTheBees #BeesOfInstagram #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #SciComm #PollinatorConservation #CaliforniaAgriculture #AvocadoFarming #WildPollinators #HoverFlies #SweatBees #InsectDecline #FoodSecurity #NewEpisode #avocado #farming #California

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