Cranberry-pollinating bee wears a mustache.

Anthophora abrupta, a mustached mud bee, is touted as an effective pollinator of cranberries. Agricultural Research Service entomologist Suzanne Batra and Harold Bechmann of the University of Delaware are conducting an experiment on whether the bees can be used to pollinate cranberry bogs. They gathered bees which they placed in cranberry bogs and, so far, have found that females had gathered cranberry pollen on their legs. One of the advantages they cite in using these bees as cranberry ...