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Bees take pollen to make honey.

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How do bees polanate?

When bees land on flowers, their fuzzy legs pick up pollen. When they do, they fly to other flowers. While they're sucking up nectar, their legs rub off pollen. That pollen helps the flowers grow.


Do bees need pollen to make honey?

No. Bees make honey from nectar. Although the honey may contain a small amount of pollen from the flowers from which the nectar was collected, this is accidental.Bees do collect pollen and bring it back to the hive, but this is used as food, particularly for the developing larvae.


What does a bumble bee eat?

Bumble bees primarily feed on nectar and pollen. They use their long proboscis to collect nectar from flowers, which provides them with energy, while pollen serves as a source of protein. The pollen they gather also helps in pollination, benefiting both the bees and the plants.


What is the role of hummingbirds in pollination?

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.


How do bees carry pollen?

Bees collect pollen on their hairy bodies as they move from flower to flower. The pollen sticks to their bodies and is then carried back to the hive in special pollen baskets on their hind legs. This pollen is used as food for the bees and to help pollinate other flowers.