What is Pollination?

Thanks to bees and their pollinating powers, we have fresh, healthy food to eat all season long. Learn how honey bees help pollinate some of your favorite veggies and fruits.

Waggle Dance

Did you know that bees can communicate through dancing?

When a forager bee finds a good nectar source, she'll fly back to the hive and do something called a WAGGLE DANCE.

This figure-eight style movement tells the location of flower sources around the hive.

The bee "waggles" in a certain angle to show the direction of the source, and for different amounts of time to tell the distance.

The hive feels the dance moves and learns where to go!

Join Phineas and Ferb as they show us the Waggle Dance. Share your best waggle with #GiveBeesAChance!

What some of your food choices would look like in a world without bees...

Like fruit? Thank a bee!

Learn from SciShow Kids about how bees help pollinate some of your favorite fruits!

WAYS YOU CAN HELP PROTECT HONEY BEES

  1. Be a Honey Bee MVP It’s getting harder to survive as a honey bee because of pesticide use and loss of habitat, but there are simple things you can do to support these important insects. Discover 6 easy (and fun!) ideas for helping honey bees.
  2. Organic Gardening Tips Go Organic! To help promote healthy ecosystems, chose organic foods for your table and plant organic seeds and seedlings for your garden. Check out these organic gardening tips to help our honey bee heroes.
  3. How to Eat a Rainbow Pollinators make so many colorful veggies and fruits possible, and we need a rainbow of fresh foods to keep our bodies healthy! Plus, supporting farmers who support honey bees makes the food supply more secure for everyone.