Once a bee has collected pollen, he travels down into the bottom of a flower. This is where the nectary is - the component of a plant that produces a sweet, orange substance named nectar. The bee drinks the nectar, still covered in pollen, and comes back out of the flower - again, passing the anthers which gets it covered even more in pollen. The bee then flies to another flower, passing the pollen covered anthers, and inserting the pollen into the stigma - a sticky "landing pad" for the pollen. The bee then travels to the nectary, and the cycle begins again.
Bees eat nectar and pollen. When they can collect a surplus of nectar they convert it into honey and store it as food for when nectar is not available.
A beekeeper who takes honey must replace it in the form of sugar syrup or the bees will starve in the winter.
The pollen is taken back to the hive, mixed with a little honey and fed to the larvae. Pollen is a good source of protein.
They eat it!
Nectar is mainly sugar, so provides the carbohydrate part of their diet. Pollen provides their protein, lipids, some vitamins and minerals.
eat it for the protein in it
Bees are fuzzy. How do you think this trait can help bees carry pollen?
Well, for one, the most common are bees.
Bees take pollen to make honey.
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So-called killer bees, more properly called Africanized honey bees, eat the same as any other honey bee: pollen and nectar.
no because honey bees pollen
Flowers contain pollen and bees carry it to other flowers but some flowers can spread their own pollen.
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They bring the pollen to other flowers.
pollen and necter pollen and necter
Honey bees get pollen on their feet and legs, and carry that pollen to the next flowering plant, tree, or shrub. Bees pollinate so the plants mature.
Male bees use nectar for food. Female bees use pollen for feeding the larvae, and nectar and pollen for own food.
No that's aphids, bees are collect pollen and nectar. No, bees collect nectar from nectary glands and pollen from the anthers in their pollen sacks. A lot of pollen also gets stuck to them elsewhere, and this can brush off in other flowers to pollinate them.
Bees are fuzzy. How do you think this trait can help bees carry pollen?
If you might have noticed a recent answer, which was pollen, that answer is wrong. Bees collect nectar, which they turn into honey. pollen sticks to their legs and falls onto other flowers. this is called pollination.
Bees eat pollen and so do lady bugs
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