How to Fertilize Crops with Bees in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to fertilize crops using bees with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, you can speed up the growing process of your crops by fertilizing the plants using bees. Let's explore how to do this.

Steps to Fertilize Crops with Bees

1. Plant your Crops near a Bee Nest or Bee Hive

In Minecraft, bees are loyal to a specific Bee Nest or Bee Hive, and therefore, tend to stay near their Nest or Hive.

So it is easiest if you plant your crops near a Bee Nest or you can craft a Bee Hive and place this Hive near your crops. In this tutorial, we have crafted a Bee Hive and placed it next to our crops.

2. Bees will gather and drop Pollen

Next, make sure that there are some flowers nearby. The bees will fly in circles over these flowers and gather pollen. Once a bee has gathered enough pollen, you will see dots on their backs and the bees should start to drop pollen as they fly around.

3. Pollen will Fertilize the Crops

Every once in a while, this pollen will land on your crops and green stars will appear over the plants. These plants are being fertilized and will grow larger (just like when you use bone meal), in effect, speeding up the growing process.

Congratulations, you just learned how to fertilize crops with bees in Minecraft!

Things to Do with Bees

Here are some activities that you can do with bees in Minecraft:

Videos

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