Symbiotic relationships

Symbiosis is a close relationship between 2 different organisms, a relationship that usually brings benefits to both organisms.

This symbiotic relationship is made up of bees and flowers, meaning that they have a mutual relationship between different group of species in this case the bee, known as one of the first intentionally pollinators that coincided with flowering plants since 120 million years ago, unlike intentional pollinators such as beetles and flies that in a way manage to carry pollen accidentally.

The work of the bees is the most important since they are in charge of pollinizing the earth, they carry out this job by going and landing with their tiny hair from flower to flower, later they pass that pollen into another flower they land on or even from time to time the pollen falls out of the bees while they are flying to other flowers.

This transferring of pollen is how plants manage to survive and have been doing it for million years.

There is different type of bees in different regions that with time got adapted to the environment and climate of the same (African bees, alictidae, apidae, etc.) but even though they are different species of bees their work is still the same.

Flowers for the other hand rely on bees to have a successful reproduction by crosspollinate their female flowers, at the same time when bees feed on the pollen, their body picks up excessive via their pollen-collecting hairs, then released when they land and even sometimes they can be released at the moment the bee is flying, the pollen then carrying and acting as the flower seed, which is mandatory for the flower survival and reproduction.

At the same time flowers and plants survival is essential so all living things can live, because of the work they do by producing oxygen we all need to live also they are big providers of food in the world and none of these will be possible if bees' didn't pollinate flowers.

The type of symbiosis between a flower and a bee is mutualism, its mutualism because they have a mutual beneficial interaction between members of the same or different species. It is rare to see but sometimes mutualistic relationships can be not symbiotic.

In this case 2 organisms are involved, and as we known the bee needs the plant to get food and the plan requires the bee to carry their seeds so they can reproduce.

This symbiotic relationship between the bees and the flowers is beneficial to humans and we must understand that the preservation of bees is essential to our ecosystem survival. Bees not only pollinate beautiful flowers but also help us fertilize our crops that we rely on to get food, thanks to this with time bees and flowers evolve becoming more efficient throughout their life cycle, this directly benefits the human race but also a lot of species that require this pollination so their food can grow, without plants and bees we will probably loose about two-thirds of our food supply.

Secondly, a very important role that plays this symbiotic relationship is the one of the oxygen, without bees pollinating flowers and making more flowers, we wouldn't have enough oxygen to bread better and have better oxygenations, there is a massive concern about bees been endangered thanks to pollution, killing of bees in parks or other places which can be considered a danger to people, exploitation of bees for honey, wax, etc.

We have to take seriously hat without bees in 4 years all life will be dead.

Sources

1.- A Symbiotic Relationship: Flowers &Bees. (2020, March 12).

https://www.edntech.com/blogs/news/the-perfect-relationship-flowers-bees#:~:text=Flowers%20rely%20on%20bees%20to,survival%20of%20that%20flower%20species.

2.- ¡Naturalistic. (s.f.-b). Symbiotic Relationships

https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/4824-symbiotic-relationships#:~:text=Mutualism%20is%20when%20two%20organisms,This%20helps%20the%20bee%20live.

3.-Symbiosis: The Art of Living Together / National Geographic Society.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/symbiosis-art-living-together