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A bee is an insect. It has six legs, three body parts, two antennae and wings.

Bees visit flowers to get food: sweet nectar and a yellow dust called pollen.

Pollen sticks to the bee's hairy body and legs. When the bee visits the next flower, some pollen rubs off.

When pollen moves from one flower to another, the flower can make seeds. This is called pollination.

Experiment: Be a bee

1. Rub yellow chalk in the middle of the yellow flower. This is the pollen.
2. Your fluffy bee lands in the middle of the yellow flower. Press it gently.
3. Fly your bee to the white flower and press it gently in the middle.
4. Look: is there yellow 'pollen' on the white flower now?
5. Wipe the white flower clean. Now do the same with the smooth bee.
6. Which bee carried more pollen: the fluffy one or the smooth one?

My bee	Yellow pollen on the white flower?
Fluffy bee	Which bee will carry more pollen?
Smooth bee	Which bee will carry more pollen?

Questions

1. Draw a bee on a flower. Show the pollen on the bee.

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2. Does a bee have six legs or eight legs?

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3. What can a flower make after a bee has pollinated it?

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