Follow the journey of these bees as they pollinate flowers.
Plants can’t move. They need bees to spread their pollen and help make new seeds.
Bees love nectar. So flowers offer up their nectar as a reward for visiting them.
And they’ve got many ways of showing what's on offer.
Bees find the smell of flowers rather lovely.
Not to mention their amazing shapes.
From flat sunflowers… …to tube shaped honeysuckle.
And they can't resist the wonderful colours of flower petals!
Most of the food humans eat comes from plants.
So bees are important for us too.
Fruit grows from a pollinated flower and vegetables from all sorts of… well, vegetation.
We even need plants so that animals we rely on for meat, cheese and eggs have something to eat.
These plants rely on bees to reproduce.
Without bees, very soon we’d have very little food.
So next time you see a bee, just let it buzz about and find a flower.
You might even want to plant your own flowers to help them out too.
Bees and flowers
Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce.
To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated.
Pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important for carrying the pollen between flowers.
To encourage bees to visit them, flowers have colourful petals and an attractive scent.
Some flowers give the bees a sugary reward called nectar too.
It’s not just plants that need bees; we need them too.
Without them we’d have very little food.
Lots of our fruit and vegetables come from plants that are pollinated by bees.
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