To grow fruits and vegetables, farmers use bees to pollinate their crops. Pollination is a method that flowering plants use to produce seeds that are strong enough to grow well-developed fruits and vegetables. From those seeds come fruits and vegetables. Without seeds, most fruits and vegetables won t develop properly, and they won t taste good. For the plants to grow fruits or vegetables, they make a powdery substance called pollen that has to be moved from one part of the plant to another.
Honeybees collect pollen on their bodies while they gather nectar to make honey.
As they fly from flower to flower, they pass the pollen along, helping the flowers make seeds. To pollinate crops, farmers hire beekeepers. The beekeepers bring their bees to the farmers crops, so the bees can help move the pollen from a flower on one plant to a flower on the same or different plant. To do this, beekeepers have to transport their hives to where the farmer is located. With all that moving around, sometimes beekeepers have trouble keeping up with their hives.