Who are the pollinators that cause fruits to form from flowers?
You’ll begin to discover answers to these questions through the Mystery Pollinator Adventure. First, some background information about pollinators and the important role they play. Pollinators are Important Basically, pollinators make sure that plants can successfully reproduce. Since plants can’t move, they depend on animals like bees, bats, butterflies, moths, birds, and many others to move their pollen from one plant to another. Pollination happens when a bee or other pollinator moves pollen from one flower to another of the same species. Bees and other pollinators visit a flower looking for nectar, pollen, or other rewards. They get covered with pollen in the process, and then carry that pollen on to the next flower that they visit. When a plant flower is pollinated it has a much better chance of developing into big full-bodied fruit full of fertile seeds, capable of sprouting and producing the next generation of plants. Some plants can self-pollinate, and others, like grass, corn,
