Looking for Pollen

During the first meeting of this newly formed Nature Club, we went looking for flower pollen. We saw many native prairie plants in bloom, each with teeny-tiny flower parts yellow with pollen. Last week I saw a bumblebee with its legs thick with yellow pollen – it almost looked like the bee was carrying yellow balloons. I found a lot of bees around the purple coneflowers when I was actually out looking for butterflies. It sometimes seems like I go looking for one thing and get interested in another.

Here is a link to the flowering plants we saw on our walk: