At the same time, they contain petals around the flower which suggests they provide a landing platform for bees.

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Stripes on petal veins direct bumblebees to the flower's "central landing platform" and entrance to gather nectar and pollen.

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Amid the peaks, we do a flyby of an impossibly tiny landing platform, grazing the ground to blow off some powder, then circling back and setting down.

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For instance, HMS Albion is Britain's first Landing Platform Dock, designed to sit in the waters off troubled states and despatch fast amphibious craft around its theatre of operations.

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We've already seen quite a bit of evidence that the preemptive virtual assistant app would be landing on Apple's mobile platform and could get baked into Chrome.

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