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’ve got manywa ...

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 ...

thatmacroguy/ Shutterstock.com Bumblebees can vibrate their bodies to dislodge pollen from a flower. The bee then combs the pollen off its hairy body into little baskets on its legs, called corbiculae ...

Like bees, however, flower flies also eat some pollen during their flower visits, and they tend to have some fine bristles ...

While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year, bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion in the ...

In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen ... shows that bees, in particular, don’t really care about the landscape surrounding flower gardens.

As predicted, female bees prefer visiting oil-flowers in Cucurbitaceae to collect oil, nectar, and pollen. The observation of males collecting floral oil from orchids has not been reported before.

There is an incredible amount of buzz lately around the subject of pollinators, and more specifically, honeybees. How much do you know about these fascinating creatures? It’s worth taking a ...