Honey bee pollinating Kona coffee flowers

Coffee flowers are being pollinated by honey bee. Even that coffee trees are relying mostly on self pollination, honey bee hives placed in the orchard cause more and faster pollination and results in a higher yield. Newest research has shown that bees, given the options, prefer coffee flowers over regular flowers and blossoms. Go figure... Oh, they also prefer the flowers of the tobacco plants over roses, tulips and the likes.
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