DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Individual bees tend to focus on one kind of flower at a time, which means it is more likely that pollen from one flower will be transferred to another flower of the same species by a particular bee. Many plants require this kind of pollen distribution, known as cross-pollination, in order to produce viable seeds.

Detailed explanation-2: -“When a bee visits the first flower on a plant, 80 percent of the resulting seeds are cross-pollinated, ‘’ Karron says. “By the time it alights on the fourth flower of that plant, almost all the seeds are self-pollinated.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Bees do not intentionally carry out pollination; it is the unintended result of the bee’s travels. Pollen clings to the branched and sticky hairs of the bee’s body, and is rubbed off as the bee walks or flies from one blossom to another. Bees carry pollen in order to transport it back to their nests.