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the role of bees is to spread pollen for the flowers to grow and the role of the humming birds is to collect necter .
The organism that is most well known to help pollinate flowers is the common bee. The bees gather nectar from flowers to make into honey. As they are gathering it, pollen sticks on them; which they then spread to other flowers by simply gathering nectar from them.
Bees, butterflies, beetles, and some species of flies and wasps are common insects that carry pollen from plant to plant during pollination. These insects play a crucial role in the reproduction and survival of many plant species.
Click on the link to your right for a picture of a ground bee. == *go to wikipedia.org to get a full decription (sp.)
Bees work together in a highly organized social structure within a hive. They collect nectar and pollen from flowers to make honey, which is stored as food. Bees also play a vital role in pollination, helping plants reproduce.
Bees do not kill plants. In fact, bees play a critical role in pollinating plants, which helps them reproduce and produce fruits and seeds. Bees collect nectar and pollen from plants to feed themselves and their colonies.
Female bees can produce baby bees the males cannot. The female bees are diploid and the male bees are haploid. The antennae of a male bee has thirteen segments, while the antennae of a female has twelve. This is one way in which male and female bees are different. The worker (unfertilized female) honey bee does all the work, both in and out of the hive, whereas the male (drone) bee does no work at all. The bad news is that at the end of the breeding season, the drone is ejected from the hive and dies because he doesn't know how to forage for food.
Bees take pollen from flowers and bring it back to their hive to make honey. In fact honey is not made out of pollen, the honey bees visit flowers in search of nectar produced by plants in their flowers inside the nectary glands. While sucking the nectar the bees smear anthers and pollen load is loaded on their legs. These pollen grains attached to their legs come in contact with the stigma of other flowers when the bees move from one flower to the other. Thus pollination is done by them for plants and in return of this service plants provide nectar to them.
Fruit trees attract bees when in bloom. Bees are also attracted to the sweetness of the fallen fruit. Apple, peach, pear, and cherry for example. Threr are always millions of honey bees that visit my plum and crabapple trees to collect pollen. (I live in North Carolina.)
The role that nectar has in the process of pollination involves gathering pollen on their legs as they drink nectar. At the next floral nectar stop, the pollen rubs off and fertilizes the receiving plant so that seeds and therefore new plants grow.