Describe how do the worker bees collect nectar from flowers
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How Do Bees Make Honey And Why Do They Sting?
Vermont Public Radio | By Melody Bodette, Jane Lindholm
Published August 18, 2017 at 12:23 PM EDT
Honeybees work together to store up honey to survive the winter. Honey is concentrated nectar from flowers.
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A bee flies near a pink flower.
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Why do bees pollinate? How do bees make honey? Why do bees have stingers? Why do bees die when they sting you? What's the difference between a bee and a wasp? Does honey have healing properties? Vermont farmer and beekeeper John Hayden of The Farm Between answers all of your bee questions! And we learn about one curious kid's app, which he hopes will help save pollinators.
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Bees collect nectar from flowers. Nectar is the sweet liquid that entices the bees to the flower. The bees climb onto or into the flower and suck up the nectar with their straw-like mouth and collect it in a little sac called a crop. They also collect pollen on their legs. As they move from flower to flower, they leave a little bit of that pollen on each new flower they visit. That's called pollination and that's how flowers reproduce.