InstaScience at Elemental Blogging

Your home for digital nature study resources and teaching science at home tips!

A Gift from Elemental Science

Living Books for Science Sign up below to receive weekly tips & tools for homeschool science and we'll send you a FREE copy of Living Books for Science: A Step by Step Guide!
  • Home
  • About
    • Speaking
  • InstaScience
  • Homeschool
    • Experiments
    • Science Fair
    • Teaching Tips
  • Printables
  • My Books
  • Elemental Science
  • Contact
You are here: Home / biology / Bees & Pollen {InstaScience}

Bees & Pollen {InstaScience}

August 6, 2015 by Paige Hudson

Check out the legs on this bee - is it from his awesome muscles or from pollen? Click on over to see facts, videos, and more!

Check out the legs on this bee!

It is not pumping iron, it’s packing pollen!

Literally hundreds of the tiny grains are resting on its pollen sacs waiting for the flight home. Bees have special combs on their front legs that they use to brush the pollen off their bodies and onto the sticky pollen sacs found on their hind legs.

From flower to flower, the pollen builds up giving the bee one fat, pumped-up hind leg!

Fun Fact – Bees tell each other where to find the pollen/nectar through a unique pattern of “dances” known as the waggle.

Teaching Science at Home

Want to learn more about bees and pollen? Check out the following articles:

  • What are pollen sacs? from Gardening for Wildlife
  • {Video} Why do we need bees? from Earth Rangers

Related Homeschool Science Activities

Keep the learning going with these science activities!

  • Pollination – Learn more about the two types of pollination with this article and activity!
  • Honey Bees – Learn more about honey bees with this activity pack from the Homeschool Scientist.

Filed Under: biology, instascience, nature study Tagged With: insects, instascience, summer

Welcome to the Elemental Blogging Laboratory

 
profile picWelcome to the Elemental Blogging Laboratory, a.k.a. the Eb Lab. Here at the lab, I have the pleasure of sharing with you all my passion for mixing up solutions for homeschool science! My name is Paige Hudson. I am a homeschooling mom and science curriculum writer for Elemental Science.
 
Why do I call this blog the "Eb Lab"? It is because I am scientist at heart and by profession, so it pretty much spills into everything I do. I love to share tips and tools with fellow educators as they seek to share science with their students!
 
That is what this blog is all about. One homeschooler to another, sharing her area of expertise, seeking to support you as you teach your students about the wonders of science.
 
So, grab your lab coat, notebook, and goggles...well maybe not the goggles because let's face it nobody looks good in those...and you probably don't have a lab coat lying around your house either...
 
So, grab a cup of coffee and notebook, and head on in to the Eb Lab to gather tools for homeschool science, tips for homeschooling, and the latest Elemental Science news!
 
Enter the Eb Lab

SIS advert

SIS advert blog

Volume 3 advert

Sassafras v3 ad

Copyright © 2025 · Prose on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in