When you go outside in your garden on a lovely sunny day, you will see bees flying from one flower to another. They drink the nectar from the flowers and collect pollen on their hairy legs to bring back to their nest to feed the young bees. To collect as much food for their young as possible, the bees visit as many flowers as they can and at the same time, they transfer pollen between the flowers when their hairy pollen legs brush along another flower. This process is what we call pollination, and it helps the plant to reproduce, grow and produce fruit. Not only bees can be pollinators, but also other animals like flies, wasps, birds, bats and lizards, which feed on plants and at the same time pick up pollen on their bodies. Pollination is vital to our ecosystem and bees alone pollinate 75% of our main food crops, such as apples and grains, which explains why these little creatures need to be our focus when planning ahead for the future.