Bee Sticks

Do you know what a bee stick is? No, they are not candies. They are sticks with bees glued on them, that you use to pollinate flowers. My class made them to pollinate our flowers. The flowers we pollinated are called brassica plants, or the Wisconsin fast plants. Brassica plants belong to the crucifer family. They got their name because all of the crucifer plants have four petals arranged in a shape of a cross. Do you think that you have ever ate a crucifer plant? Well, if you have eaten Cabbage, Turnip, Collard, Watercress, Kohlrabi, Choy sum, Cauliflower, well you get my point. So if you have ever ate one of those you have eaten a crucifer plant. The 4 parts of crucifer plants are the petals and they are the thin colored parts of the plant, there is the anthers and that is the part of the flower with the pollen on it, and last but not least, there is the stigma and that is middle of the plant that has all the seeds in it. Well, I have to go pollinate my flowers... Bye.

Posted by Nick