![]() ![]() We have started talking about the invertebrate group of insects. ![]() Do you remember when we talked about seeds and the baby plant inside of them just waiting to grow? Isn’t is amazing how flowers make seeds for new plants to grow? ![]() The seeds now contain all the parts that will grow into a new plant and the food it needs to start growing. The flower has done its job and the petals start to die and fall away. Once a flower has been pollinated, a seed begins to grow inside it. Many flowers are pollinated by insects, birds, or other animals. Some plants use the wind to carry the pollen from one flower to another. How does pollen from one flower reach the female parts of another? Flowering plants need help to spread their pollen. Pollen grains come in many different shapes, but they are always too small to see properly without a magnifying glass. Most plants are pollinated by pollen from another plant of the same kind. When this happens it is called pollination. To make a seed, pollen from the stamens of one flower must reach the pistil of another. The stamens make a powdery dust called pollen. The stamens, pistil, stigma, calyx, and the we also found out that many flowers have a sweet liquid called nectar. We found out that a flower has both male and female parts and learned the names of some of them. The petals all together are called the corolla. Let’s look this flower and review some of its parts. Need for lesson – Real or fake flower to demonstrate parts. Busy, Buzzy Bees Allan Fowler Botany: (first circle) ![]()
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