NARRATOR: Plants cant move. They need bees to spread their pollen and help make new seeds.
Bees love nectar so flowers offer up their nectar as a reward for visiting them. And they鈥檝e got manyways of showing what鈥檚 on offer.
Bees find the smell of flowers rather lovely. Not to mention their amazing shapes. From flatsunflowers to -tube shaped- honey suckle. And they cant resist the wonderful colours of flowerpetals.
Most of the food humans eat comes from plants, so bees are important for us too. Fruit grows froma pollenated flower and vegetables from all sorts of, well, vegetation.
We even need plants so that the animals we rely on for meat, cheese and eggs, have something toeat.
These plants rely on bees to reproduce. Without bees, very soon, we鈥檇 have very little food.
So the next time you see a bee just let it buzz about and find a flower. You might even want to plantyour own flowers to help them out too.
Bees and flowers
Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce.
To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated.
Pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important for carrying the pollen between flowers.
To encourage bees to visit them, flowers have colourful petals and an attractive scent.
Some flowers give the bees a sugary reward called nectar too.
It鈥檚 not just plants that need bees; we need them too.
Without them we鈥檇 have very little food.
Lots of our fruit and vegetables come from plants that are pollinated by bees.
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