Thames & Kosmos Kids First: Biology Lab (V 2.0) handleiding

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Attracted by fragrant, sugary nectar,

honeybees fly from flower to flower in the

spring and summer. They collect the nectar

to make honey from it. When a honeybee

lands on a flower, some pollen sticks to

its fuzzy body. The honeybee appears

to be covered in yellow powder from

head to toe after visiting a flower with a

lot of pollen.

Some of the pollen that is coating the

honeybee then rubs off on the next flower

that the honey visits. In this way, the honeybee

pollinates the flower.

Many plants depend on bees for pollination and

cannot reproduce without them. The remaining

pollen makes it back to the beehive together

with the bee. There, it is used as food for the bee

larvae. A few pollen grains end up in honey — and

thus on your breakfast toast, in your tea, or even

under your microscope!

Bees

POLLEN AND

POLLEN GRAINS —

FLOWERS’ FINGERPRINTS

Honey often contains pollen from a

variety of plants that are attractive to

bees in ﬁelds, forests, and meadows.

The pollen grains in honey can

provide information about which

ﬂowers were visited by the bees that

produced the honey.

In your honey sample, you can

see different shapes and structures of

the pollen under the microscope. By

comparing it with the pictures, you

may even be able to check whether

the honey actually comes from the

sources stated on the label. In the

scientiﬁc world, there are actual

pollen grain specialists who

use a microscope to examine the

pollen compositions of a wide

variety of samples to

determine, among other

things, which country a

honey sample comes from.

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