Bees find food on honey plants..
These are the plants that are rich in honey, pollen and manna. With their varied colours and scents, these plants attract bees and other insects such as butterflies and bumblebees. They provide food for the insects and at the same time ensure their survival.
Through their flowers, the plants secrete a sweet liquid called honeydew or nectar. Each flower also contains pollen, or pollen produced in the stamens. Because bees need this pollen for their food, they collect it.
While collecting pollen, honey and honeydew, bees also pollinate plants. When visiting flowers, the pollen sticks to the bee's hairs and is then transferred from flower to flower by the bee. The bees transfer the pollen to the pistil furrow of another plant of the same species, thus significantly influencing the production of the fruits or seeds with which the plant reproduces. The fruits are, of course, also food for many animals.
Honey plants are most commonly found in meadows (flowers, grasses, etc.), forests (lime, maple, chestnut, acacia, etc.), fields (buckwheat, rapeseed, sunflower, clover, etc.) and home gardens (cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, etc.). Bees pollinate crops, fruit trees, spices and herbs and other plants that are an essential part of the human diet. They also pollinate the forage plants that feed the animals that humans keep for their food - milk and dairy products, eggs and meat.
Honey has been used as a sweetener and food additive in the human diet for millennia. In addition to honey, we also use other bee products: pollen, propolis, royal jelly and beeswax. Bee products are also used for health and therapeutic purposes and are widely used in cosmetics.
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