Lemon Trees and Bumblebees. Diane Sherrouse

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       LEMON TREES AND BUMBLEBEES

      Summary: LEMON TREES AND BUMBLEBEES presents the magic of pollination, the dance of bees and flowers, with creative descriptions and fanciful illustrations, to readers of all ages. Copyright © 2011 by Diane Anton Sherrouse ISBN: 978-0-9840155-8-0

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      For Brock,

      a very special “B”

      Every lemon tree has a special kind of magic,...

      ...not the kind that happens when someone pulls

      a rabbit from a hat...

      ...or makes your kid brother disappear. Poof!

      Where’d he go?

      You can’t see tree magic right away.

      It’s hidden like buried treasure.

      Wander and watch. Look high and low and up close.

      There are clues every spring. Flower buds form,

      a BUMBLEBEE hunts for food, and the magic called

      POLLINATION begins.

      The bee’s ANTENNAE let her smell something

      very sweet. She can’t resist. Glub, glub, glub.

      This will make yummy honey for a COLONY

      full of young, growing bees.

      Soon, more bees smell the sweetness

      and come to drink.

      The POLLEN collects all over the bee’s hairy body

      and gets stuffed into pockets on her hind legs.

      So many flowers! Buzz, buzz. Slurp, slurp.

      Bees are flying and moving...

      ...and crawling and brushing everywhere.

      Pollen dust from the flower’s male STAMENS

      rubs off the bee’s body onto the flower’s female

      PISTIL. Pollination happens whenever pollen

      is moved between these flower parts. Soon...

      ...flowers drop, and tiny lemons begin to grow on the stems.

      Inside each fruit are SEEDS which can grow into more trees.

      During the summer, the little lemons grow

      and slowly change, from bright green...

      ...to pale green with yellow specks to, finally...

      ...sunny, yellow, ripe lemons.

      When autumn winds blow,

      it’s time to pick fat, juicy lemons.

      We’ll use these lemons for our surprise next summer.

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