The female part -- known as pistil -- is the part of a flower that a bee rubs with another flower's pollen. The original source of the pollen for the insect in question is a flower's male part, known as anther.
When a bee with pollen visits a flower, it transfers some of that pollen to the flower's stigma, which is the female reproductive part. This process, known as pollination, facilitates fertilization, allowing the flower to produce seeds and fruit. In return, the bee collects nectar and additional pollen for food, creating a mutually beneficial relationship between the bee and the flower. This interaction is crucial for plant reproduction and biodiversity.
Yes, the flower benefits when the bee collects pollen from it because the pollen is transferred to other flowers during the bee's pollination process, helping with fertilization and reproduction. This allows the flower to produce seeds and fruit for the next generation.
Let us consider the bee, which is the most famous, and the most useful pollinating organism. The bee comes to a flower in order to drink the nectar and eat the pollen, but the bee is also covered with hair (the bee hair consists of extrusions of chitin, it is not the same as mamallian hair) and lots of pollen sticks to it. When the bee then visits other flowers, it brings with it the pollen that it picked up at an earlier flower. If some of that pollen gets into the right place on the new flower (the right place being the pistil) then it will pollinate the flower.
If the insect carries pollen from one flower to another, it can facilitate cross-pollination, leading to the fertilization and production of seeds in the second flower. This can enhance genetic diversity, improve reproductive success, and potentially increase biodiversity in the ecosystem.
It collects the nectar and pollen (pollinating the flower).
a bee takes pollen into and out of the flower ;)
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it will just store up the pollen with the other pollen The bee would probably leave some of the pollen from the first flower in the second flower to pollinate the seeds there, and would probably pick up some pollen from the second flower. That's how it works.
The female part -- known as pistil -- is the part of a flower that a bee rubs with another flower's pollen. The original source of the pollen for the insect in question is a flower's male part, known as anther.
gets pollen
When a bee with pollen visits a flower, it transfers some of that pollen to the flower's stigma, which is the female reproductive part. This process, known as pollination, facilitates fertilization, allowing the flower to produce seeds and fruit. In return, the bee collects nectar and additional pollen for food, creating a mutually beneficial relationship between the bee and the flower. This interaction is crucial for plant reproduction and biodiversity.
A bee or butterfly is an example. Or a flower...
Pollen and nectar.
As bees take nectar from a flower, pollen gets transferred from the stamen on to the bee's body. When the bee goes to the next flower some of this pollen is transferred to the stigma, fertilizing the flower. Once a bee starts collecting nectar from a particular type of flower it will keep going to the same type of flower as long as it can, keeping the pollen to the same type of flower.
Mutualism - both species benefit from their relationship. The bee comes to the flower to collect nectar as food, and brushes against the anthers of the flower, which are covered in pollen. The bee moves to another flower to collect nectar and rubs the pollen off on the second flower's stigma, fertilizing the flower. Thus, the bee receives a source of food from the flowers, and the flowers are pollinated by the bee.
It doesn't hurt the bee, if that's what you are wondering. Actually, the bee isn't trying to collect pollen at all. Bees stop on flowers to collect nectar, and the pollen clings to the fluff on their bodies. When the bee stops at another flower, the pollen from another plant is brushed onto the flower. This is one way that flowers reproduce. The nectar collected by the bee then goes on to become honey after it is taken back to the hive. So, when a bee takes pollen from a flower, it is neither good nor bad, but a neutral interaction.