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POLLINATION is the process of moving pollen from the stamen to the pistil of a flower to fertilize it so it can develop fruit and seed.

POLLINATORS are important to our global food production system because they pollinate nut, fruit, and vegetable bearing plants which causes the plants to produce fruit and seed.

Flower color, shape, and nectar production are all special PHYSCAL ADAPTATIONS that plants have developed to attract pollinators.

NECTAR is a sugar-water mixture that plants produce to attract pollinators such as bees.

POLLEN BASKETS are special structures on a honeybee’s legs in which it can store balls of pollen.

Bees take back pollen to their hive to feed their BROOD which is a term that refers to all the bee larva (baby bees) in the hive.

The hairs on a honeybee’s body have STATIC CHARGE that helps pollen stick to them.

Visiting thousands of flowers a day and visiting mainly one kind of flower are BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS that make honeybees great pollinators.

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