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Bees fly from flower to flower, and yellow dust sticks to their fuzzy legs the whole way.

Why do plants really need bees to visit their flowers?

To help make new seeds
When bees carry that yellow pollen dust between flowers, it helps plants make seeds — without helpers like bees, many fruits and vegetables couldn't grow.

Plants really need bees to visit their flowers to help make new seeds. As bees move flower to flower, yellow pollen dust sticks to their fuzzy legs and rubs off on the next flower, fertilizing it so the plant can make seeds.

Bees don't water plant roots or make leaves grow taller; those jobs belong to rain and sunlight instead, so neither option matches what bees actually do.

A huge share of fruits and vegetables we eat depend on bees or other pollinators to form properly, which is why beekeepers sometimes truck hives to farms during flowering season.

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