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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?


Is that how the mother gets the seed from the father?


You really didn't have to share this.




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