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His whole life, Buddy 

the bee had watched 

all the grown up bees 

bring pollen back to 

the hive for their 

families and friends. 

Buddy was always too 

small to go on pollen 

trips. “When you’re 

older and bigger,” 

they’d say.

One day he decided. He 

would go out of the hive and 

get pollen for his family. 

And they would be so proud 

of him. Then they would 

never say he wasn’t big 

enough or old enough to get 

pollen.

So Buddy flew out of the hive. He had rarely left the hive 

before, and the world outside was so big and bright! With so 

many new things to see and do. But he had to get the pollen. 

That’s what he had to do.

Buddy flew far away 

from the hive, over the 

hills and the river, when 

he finally found a big 

patch of beautiful 

flowers. There were so 

many different ones, 

but Buddy choose the 

one that was the 

biggest flower of all, 

right in the middle of 

the all the others.

Buddy landed on the 

flower, and it was 

covered in pollen! 

This was perfect! 

More for him to 

bring back home! So 

he got as much as he 

could hold between 

his legs, and flew 

off, back towards 

the hive.

Just after he crossed the river, he started to feel how 

heavy the pollen was. It was so much! He could barely hold 

it up. He started to drop lower and lower and lower until 

finally, PLOP! The pollen dropped right down into the 

grass, where it disappeared.

“Oh no!” he said. 

“Now I will never 

be able to bring 

pollen back to the 

hive.” Disappointed 

and exhausted, he 

flew back to the 

hive, barely able to 

hold himself up.

When he got home, his mother saw he looked sad. 

“What’s wrong Buddy?” she asked. “I tried to go out 

and get pollen today, but it was too heavy to bring 

back home.” Buddy looked very sad.

“Oh Buddy, why didn’t 

you ask for help? 

There’s nothing wrong 

with needing someone 

to help you. Come on, 

lets go get that pollen.” 

So Buddy and his 

mother flew away from 

the hive to the flowers.

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