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Bees collect pollen to make honey, and in doing so they transfer pollen from plant to plant. Pollen contains the sex cells that plants use for sexual reproduction, which provides more genetic diversity than if plants were self-pollinating, or only from within a small area.

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Do bees get nectar from plants?

Yes, bees collect nectar from flowers of the plants


Do bees kill plants?

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.


How bees live?

Bees live in a colony and their nest is called a hive. There is one queen bee and hives can have up to 80,000 bees. Bees eat nectar and pollen from flowers and plants. The workers make honey, which is feed to the larvae.


Do bees eat green plants?

Bees don't eat plants, green or otherwise but they do eat the nectar that they collect from plants.


Do clematis plants attract bees?

Yes, clematis plants can attract bees with their colorful and fragrant flowers.


Why are bees so important to flower?

Plants and everything need bees. The bees pollinate the plants and keep them strong and healthy. The plants need pollination from other plants and bees bring that to them. The plants keep the other animals alive and that keeps us alive. Einstein once said that if the honeybees died mankind would have four years left on this earth before they succumbed to starvation. WE need bees just as much as the plants do.


What would happen to plants if bees were extinct?

There are plenty of other insects that pollinate plants apart from bees so the plants would survive.


List of ground cover plants that don't attract bees?

Sedums do not attract bees. There are also some breeds of ivy and ice plants that do not attract bees.


What will happen to the diversity of plants if there were no bees?

Plants will be lesser and lesser as the bees did not take the pollen grains to another plant.


How do bees help plants reproduce?

Bees and other animals help to spread pollen to fertilize other plants.


How plants are pollenATED?

bees have nectar and go to the plants and they put the nectar on the plant then the plant grows and it becomes pollinated in which later the bees come and take its honey


Why are plants helpful to bees?

Bees collect the nectar from plants, which they use to create honey to feed on for themselves and for their larvae. In turn, the plants are able to be pollinated also.