Grade 4 Daily Practice
📖 Reading Passage
Bees are some of the hardest-working creatures on Earth. A single honeybee may visit hundreds of flowers in one day, collecting a yellow powder called pollen. As the bee moves from flower to flower, it carries pollen with it. This process — called pollination — allows plants to make seeds and grow fruit. Without bees, many of our favourite foods would disappear. Apples, almonds, blueberries, and watermelons all need bees to pollinate them. Scientists estimate that about one third of the food humans eat depends on pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds — but bees do the most work. Sadly, bee populations have been shrinking. Pesticides, loss of wildflower habitats, and diseases spread by tiny mites have made life difficult for bee colonies. Many people are now planting gardens full of wildflowers and avoiding harmful sprays to help bees survive.
If bees disappeared completely, what would most likely happen to our food supply?