A close-up of the bee hive
Fruits, vegetables, cereal and grain dominate the food we consume. Any dish, that is sweet, sour, bitter or spicy, is based on these resources that come from plants. Most of the time fruits or vegetables just do not come out of flowers. As we all know behind all these flowery and fruitful plants lies a very magical and technically complicated process called pollination, a brainchild of Mother Nature.
How do plants get pollinated? Well, depending on geographical areas it happens in different ways. Wind, insects and other animals are the main ones. But in most fruiting trees and in certain vegetables the pollen is carried by animals mostly by insects – butterflies, bees as we know.
Pollen is the male part of the flower and it needs to be carried away to the female part of the flower which is called pollination and in most cases in nature, without pollen plants can not produce fruits or seeds. The fruits that we eat, the vegetables we use and even most spices are derived from fruits and seeds of plants would not exist if not for pollination. This is a necessary part of the reproductive biology of plants.
Read full article: http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/04/15/fea07.asp
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