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The Importance of Honey Bees
Why do you think honey bees are
important?
Question: Do you know what all these foods have
in common?
Answer: They all need
honey bees in order to be produced!
Bees Do More Than Make Honey…
Bees are responsible for pollinating over 90 types of flowering crops in the U.S.
About 1/3 of the food we eat, requires bees to pollinate the flowers of their plant in order for the plant to produce food.
Before fruits and vegetables grow,
a plant first has to flower…
In order for the flower to turn into fruit,
the flower has to get pollen from another flower… this is where bees
come into play.
Flowers that don’t make fruit still need pollen from another flower to make seeds, which eventually
make new plants.
So the bees help the plants produce plants and more
seeds…
But the plants also help the bees, because the bees bring pollen back to
their hives where they turn it into food (honey!)
Some plants don’t make flowers. For
example, pine trees just make
pine cones, which are kind
of like giant seeds. They rely on the
wind to pollinate
instead of bees.
Other types of pollinators are butterflies, bats,
humming birds, wind, and water.
Bees make hives in
nature, but people keep
bees in order to
gather their honey, or
use them to pollinate
crops.
So to summarize, bees help us survive, because the help
produce a lot of the food we eat!
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