Found this on a bee blog
https://badbeekeepingblog.com/...
There are 55 milkweed species. Some, like the swamp milkweed at the top of this post, have flat flowers, but most are globular, like the one to your left. Honey bees are fond of fragrant milkweed flowers, but sometimes find big trouble while milking the milkweeds. Bees can get trapped by the pollen-containing pollinia. Rather than face certain death in the flower trap, some bees manage to rip off their stuck legs or antennae and then hobble home with a tank of honey. (Others just sit there and die.) If homeward hobblers manage to make it back they're greeted as disabled veterans by their hive mates β they are dragged out of the nest and exiled until dead. (So much for embracing the bees' utopian society.)
