The bees as plant pollinators (video for Children)

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Hello today we will be studying about bees as pollinators of plants; you know, that the harvest of most crops is impossible without pollination; which is produced by pollinating insects, among which are bees.

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In agriculture, the income from the sale of crops pollinated by insects is 10 times higher than the income of beekeepers from the sale of honey and wax products. Pollination helps increase plant productivity: buckwheat - by 50%; sunflower - by 70%; Clover - up to 300%.

A bee can smell flowers at a distance of approximately 1 km

These worker insects love to pollinate different crops.

Among fruits and vegetables, the favorites are:

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✔ apricots
✔ apple trees;
✔ melons
✔ cucumbers
✔ Tomatoes
✔ pepper
✔ zucchini

The flowers pollinated by bees bugs are:

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✔ roses
✔ daisies
✔ poppy
✔ marigolds

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There are plants that bees cannot pollinate due to the pungent smell that comes from the plant or, on the contrary, their total absence.

Plants that do not attract insects:

lemon mint;
fragrant lavender;
calendula

How plants attract bees

The flowers attract pollinators with: bright petals; pleasant aroma; Convenient flower structure, so that the probability of pollination increases.

Characteristics of the pollination of flowers.

The melting pollinator body is completely covered with small hairs to which the pollen adheres. When moving from one plant to another, the insect carries pollen, which is called pollination.

During the pollination of flowers, pollen falls partially from the villi and a new one adheres. This process is called cross pollination.

Principles of bee pollination training

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There are 2 principles to train bees for pollination:

in the aroma;
to the ground

The aroma training

To carry out the aroma training, the insects are fed with sugar syrup with the addition of plant flowers, which must be pollinated.

The dressing is prepared according to the following recipe: A sugar solution is prepared from 1 kg of sugar dissolved in a liter of hot water. When the syrup cools, 5-6 flower corollas without green cups are added.

Important! The colonies feed in the morning before the bees fly to collect nectar, placing feeders near the hives.

The field training technique

This technique is based on the development of conditioned reactions to a mixed smell in insects. It is necessary to add a flower to the top dressing of a sugar solution, which grows in a field whose territory needs to be pollinated and also add 2 drops of aniseed oil.

When a large half of the colony flies to the feeder, it is transferred to a site that requires pollination.

The insects they have eaten will return to their hives, where they will mobilize the colony to visit the feeder. The aroma of aniseed oil will help families find the field where the feeders are located, so insects will begin to visit the feeder intensively and capture the territory that needs to be pollinated.

The procedure is carried out for 3 days, after which the feeder is removed from the field.

Video to explain to children, "Bees as plant pollinators"; in an easier way.

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