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# Bees and pollination

Bees and pollination: how flowers and insects depend on each other. Bees visit flowers for nectar, pollen sticks to their bodies and transfers to the next flower. Without pollination many plants cannot make seeds or fruit. Why bees matter for the food we eat.

Subject: Science · Area: Insects & Minibeasts · Ages 7 to 9
Page: https://lightmysky.com/learn/science/bees-and-pollination-mt_SZJ1mN7Vfk

## Ready when they can

- Describe how pollen moves from one flower to another when a bee visits to collect nectar
- Explain that many fruits and vegetables depend on bees or other insects for pollination
- State what would happen to a garden or farm if there were no pollinating insects

## Lesson: Bees and pollination

Bees do more than make honey. When a bee lands on a flower, it drinks a sweet liquid called nectar. While it moves around, a fine, powdery dust called pollen sticks to the tiny hairs all over its body.

*(drawing: The bee carries pollen from Flower A to Flower B without meaning to.)*

**Example.** Zara watches a bee land on a yellow squash flower to drink nectar. Pollen dust covers its legs. The bee flies off and lands on another squash flower nearby, brushing some pollen loose. Because of that pollen, the second flower can now grow into a squash.

*(drawing: The same garden grew far fewer pumpkins the year bees stopped visiting.)*

**Tip.** Many foods you eat, like apples, strawberries, and almonds, only grow because a bee or another insect carried pollen to the flower first. Without pollinators, farms and gardens would grow much less food.

**Recap.** Bees carry pollen between flowers while collecting nectar, and that pollen is what lets many fruits and vegetables grow.

## Practice

8 questions on this page, each with its working shown.

## Needs first

- [Social insects: ants and bees](https://lightmysky.com/learn/science/social-insects-ants-and-bees-mt_guaaD6Dn2M)
- [Minibeasts in the food chain](https://lightmysky.com/learn/science/minibeasts-in-the-food-chain-mt_QH-Fs97twT)

## Opens up

- [Insects in ecosystems](https://lightmysky.com/learn/science/insects-in-ecosystems-mt_r6oKXpN0er)