Fill in the Blanks Bees and PollinationOnline version Fill the spaces in blank by Marisol Vela 1 Honeybees pollen color cells Thousands people body honey sunny sunflowers Imagine bees plant nectar female tongue fertilization yourself on a day in a meadow . You're surrounded by , wildflowers , and dandelions . The air is fragrant with the smell of ripe blossoms and noisy with the buzzing of bees . of them are hard at work all over the place . They're gathering and pollen for the hive and also spreading pollen from plant to . The and scent of flowers attract and other insects . Pollen is the powdery yellowish substance inside flower blossoms . It contains male reproductive . When a bee lands on a flower , sticks to the hairs on its . When it flies to the next flower , the pollen sticks to that flower's cells . This joining of male and female cells is called . Without fertilization , new plants or flowers could not grow . Meanwhile , the nectar a bee sucks up with its is used for making . A bee delivers that nectar to the hive . Then it flies right back out again to get more . visit between 60 , 000 and 90 , 000 flowers to collect enough nectar to make just a thimbleful of honey . There's a reason say " busy as a bee " !