How do bees help flowers and the food we eat?
Bee Delivery Service
How do bees help flowers and the food we eat?
A bee buzzes into a flower and comes out wearing yellow trousers of dust. That dust is called pollen, and the bee has no idea it just became the most important delivery service on Earth.
Here's the secret flowers don't say out loud: most of them can't make seeds alone. To make a seed, a flower needs pollen from ANOTHER flower of the same kind. But flowers are rooted in place. They can't walk across the meadow to deliver it themselves.
