Bee and flower Bees and flowers have a long and beneficial relationship. Bees get food in the form of nectar and pollen from flowers. This nectar and pollen also contain the building blocks for bee colonies to make honey and wax. In return, bees help flowers by allowing them to reproduce through pollination. Bees help to make sure that plants of the same species can produce offspring. Bees have had a unique relationship with flowers since the beginning of time. Pollination is essential for the reproduction of plants and together plants and bees have evolved to strengthen and help one another. Bees have evolved to have specialized sensory abilities that allow them to sense the nectar in the flower, and to determine how best to use their tongues to get it. Plants often have flowers that are brightly coloured and have a sweet smell to attract bees. This is a way of ensuring that the bees will pollinate the flower. The relationship between bees and flowers is mutually beneficial. Bees get food and flowers get pollinated and can reproduce. Flowers have also evolved different defence mechanisms to protect themselves against predators and parasites. These defence mechanisms are often very strong smelling, which helps reduce the chance of a bee being affected by them. This also helps to keep the relationship between bees and flowers healthy. In short, the relationship between bees and flowers is essential to the survival of both species. Bees need flowers for food, and flowers need bees for pollination. Without this mutually beneficial relationship, neither species would be able to survive.