How Bees and Plants Work Together
Synergy means working together to make something better than if you worked alone. Plants and bees are a great example of this. Bees visit flowers to collect nectar, a sweet juice they use to make honey. Bees eat honey in the winter when there are no flowers.
As a bee collects nectar, sticky pollen gets stuck to its legs in special pockets called pollen sacs. When the bee flies to another flower, it drops some of the pollen onto the flower's stigma (the sticky part at the top of the flower).
The pollen then moves down a tiny tube inside the flower called the pistil. It travels to the ovule, where a seed begins to form. This seed can grow into a new plant.
Plants like Fast Plants also need bees to carry pollen from one flower to another. This is called pollination. Without pollination, plants can’t make seeds. If a plant is inside a house and away from bees, it won’t get the pollen it needs. Without seeds, the plant’s life cycle stops, and it won’t grow new plants.
Synergy isn’t just about bees and plants—it happens when people work together too. When we help each other, we can do amazing things we couldn’t do alone!