What is up everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. I am back again with Dave

Hunter from Crown Bees and as promised we're going to be going into some of the

deeper questions, some of those

wise to help us understand the root of things so that we can then take that

knowledge and apply it into the garden. And so today's question is going to be,

why do we actually need bees at all or I guess you could say

what role do bees play in natural ecosystems that's so important for us and also

important for our gardens. So Dave, let's go ahead and just, I know it's a meaty question, but let's

go ahead and crack into it.

Yeah, okay, so this is actually kind of easy. It's all about sex.

All right, there we go all your plants out there you go all your

plants out there have male parts and female parts and this pollen goes from the male part and needs to be moved to the

female part and those once it does that the little pollen grains go down to

the ovules and they create the seeds. So no movement of pollen, no plant reproduction.

So there you go. And so whether I'm using a Q-tip or a hummingbird or an ant crawling across the flower or a B. It's that simple.

We're moving pollen from point A to point B.

So that's what the bees do.

And whether you're in a dandelion or a big leaf maple or a tulip,

every flower out there is saying, hey, use me.

And some of the flowers are white, maybe those are more nighttime flowers or some flowers smell differently, or bees can't see red and so the red

flowers are more for hummingbird and so nature has adapted to make sure they've got their, you know, movement of pollen from here to there.

Sometimes wind is a pollinator.

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