There are many insects to observe in the garden now. One of my favorites is bees. Bees are pollinators. Their fuzzy bodies carry pollen from plant to plant. Bees pollinate a quarter of the foodstuffs we eat.
Bees collect pollen for protein and nectar for carbohydrates.
The landscape is full of flowers that must be pollinated by insects in order to produce fruit and seeds. Many kinds of bees visit flowers, but none of them is as efficient a pollinator as the honeybee. Rosita at Livengood Farm Honeybees pollinate millions of dollars' worth of almonds, alfalfa, clover, citrus and squash every year. Honeybees aren't native to North America. They came to this continent with the European colonists.