Flying Bee

YOUR LINK HERE:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AzvebsZGSHQ

Bees are giants. No, really. 99% of all living organisms on Earth are actually smaller than a bee. Bees also make up an enormous family of insects-- there are over 20,000 known species of bees! And when it comes to sustaining the biodiversity of flowering plants around the world, bees are pretty huge deal. • Bees are prolific pollinators, making them very important to the survival of different types of plants. To reproduce, flowering plants grow two special organs inside their flowers-- the stamen, or male organ, and the female organ, called the pistil. These organs look a little different from plant to plant, but in order to make seeds, plants need to transfer genetic material, stored in pollen, from their stamens to their pistils. As bees travel from flower to flower, gathering nectar and pollen for food, they help transfer that genetic material from place to place, allowing all of those plants to create seeds from which their next generation will grow. Without bees as pollinators, many species of plants could not produce seeds. Without seeds to grow new plants, the populations of those plants could collapse within a single generation. • In ecosystems containing flowering plants, bees are the major pollinators. Although we sometimes take bees for granted, the role they play in preserving the diversity of plant life is staggeringly important. Learn more about the critical role bees play in keeping our entire planet healthy by checking out http://www.earthrangers.com/wildwire/...

#############################

New on site