Bees and pollination

Question 1

If there were no pollinating insects like bees, what would most likely happen to a garden or farm?

Accepted Answer

The garden would have fewer fruits and vegetables because many plants need pollination to make seeds and fruit.

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The garden would stay the same because the wind can pollinate all plants.

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The garden would become full of weeds because insects eat the weeds.

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The garden would have many more fruits because plants don’t need pollination.

Question 2

A honey bee lands on a pink lily to sip nectar. Tiny grains of pollen stick to the bee’s fuzzy legs. The bee then flies to a nearby orange marigold and drinks its nectar. What correctly describes what happens to the pollen that was on the bee’s legs?

Accepted Answer

The pollen rubs off onto the marigold’s sticky stigma, helping that flower make seeds.

Answer

The bee eats the pollen for energy, so the marigold does not receive any pollen.

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The pollen stays on the bee’s legs and falls to the soil when the bee lands, so it never reaches the marigold.

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The pollen mixes with the nectar inside the bee and turns into honey, so the marigold gets no pollen.

Question 3

A honey bee lands on a bright sunflower to sip nectar. While it is on the flower, tiny yellow pollen grains stick to the bee’s fuzzy legs. The bee then flies to a nearby purple lavender to collect more nectar. How does the pollen from the sunflower get onto the lavender?

Accepted Answer

When the bee lands on the lavender, some of the pollen that is stuck to its legs falls onto the lavender’s sticky centre (the stigma).

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The bee keeps the pollen in a special pocket and deliberately drops it onto the lavender when it arrives.

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The wind carries the pollen from the sunflower directly to the lavender; the bee does not move the pollen at all.

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The bee eats the pollen at the sunflower, stores it in its honey stomach, and then squeezes it out onto the lavender while drinking nectar.

Try three questions

If there were no pollinating insects like bees, what would most likely happen to a garden or farm?

A honey bee lands on a pink lily to sip nectar. Tiny grains of pollen stick to the bee’s fuzzy legs. The bee then flies to a nearby orange marigold and drinks its nectar. What correctly describes what happens to the pollen that was on the bee’s legs?

A honey bee lands on a bright sunflower to sip nectar. While it is on the flower, tiny yellow pollen grains stick to the bee’s fuzzy legs. The bee then flies to a nearby purple lavender to collect more nectar. How does the pollen from the sunflower get onto the lavender?

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