Living in mutual benefit. Symbiosis from the Greek words for together living. The bee and the plant has evolved together through time and cannot live without each other today. The bee needs the flower nectar to make honey and the flower needs the bee to carry pollinate flowers. As the bee dips its proboscis into the flower to eat the nectar its legs pick up the sticky pollen. The bee then goes to another flower for more nectar and some of that pollen rubs off on the next flower. Most of the plants we depend on for food need bees to live. Therefore, if bees die, plants will die, and we suffer. So, we are in relationship with the plants and bees, also. They do well, then we do well also. What else in our lives are symbiotic?