20 Mart 2008 Perşembe

. POLLINATION




Since many of our pollinators are now scarce, we are dependent on the honey bee to pollinate our crops. Pollination starts when a field bee crawls around a plant blossom. The honey bee is dusted with pollen. Then the field bee flies over to another blossom with the pollen in its hair. When the bee lands, the pollen falls onto this blossom�s stigma. Now a fruit, vegetable or other crop can grow.

Farmers actually rented colonies of bees to pollinate their crops. Even though other insects pollinate crops too, honey bees are one of the few that are synchronized and managed with the development of crops. If honey bees didn�t pollinate, crops wouldn�t be able to grow. Without the pollination from the honey bees there would be one third less crops in the world than there is now.

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