The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery

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If Honeybees Are in Trouble We're in Trouble Having insects such as honeybees vanish may not seem like a big deal but it is Without honeybees you could be limited to eating oats rice and corn These foods come from plants that use wind to move their pollen male reproductive cells to their ovules female reproductive cells The process of transferring pollen is called pollination It has to happen for a plant to produce seeds parts that contain an embryo or baby plant That's how the plant produces more of its own kind of plant The wind pollinates some plants But birds bats and insects especially bees pollinate many more Honeybees in particular are needed in order to grow apples raspberries watermelon almonds and cucumbers to name just a few These are some of the foods you can enjoy thanks to