Buzzy Bees
This common type of bee, also known by the genus Apis, famously produces honey.
What is the honeybee?
This habitat that is strongly preferred by bees due to its abundance of wildflowers and forbs has been plowed for the pristine soil it contains. It is also the original dominating habitat of the midwest.
This iconic red, summer-loving fruit relies almost entirely on honeybee pollination to produce its delicious flesh and exterior seeds.
What is a strawberry?
Wearing natural "fur coats" and equipped with long tongues, these nocturnal mammals are the primary pollinators of giant saguaro cacti and agave plants in the desert
What are bats?
Bees, butterflies, and bats help produce about one-third of the global food supply, making this the most famous benefit of pollinators.
What is crop pollination (or human food production)?
This type of bee uses "buzz pollination" to shake pollen out of flowers by vibrating their flight muscles.
What are bumblebees?
This substance often used by farmers either directly kills pollinators or impairs their navigation, reproduction, and/or behavior.
What are pesticides or chemicals?
Native to the Americas, this tall grain crop depends on the wind for its primary pollination, but insect visitors also help pollinate surrounding companion crops like beans and squash.
What is corn (maize)?
Known for their long, slender bills and love of bright colors, these tiny, hovering birds specialize in pollinating tubular flowers like penstemons and columbines.
What are hummingbirds?
Beyond just growing crops, pollinators ensure the reproduction of wild flowering plants, which directly maintains this vital concept of biological variety and environmental health.
What is ecosystem stability and biodiversity?
This type of bee is named after their ability to chew circular tunnels (known as galleries) into wood to build nests, which they use to raise their young.
What are carpenter bees?
This species of honeybee is considered invasive in North America. Initially imported to North America for honey production and agricultural pollination, they now compete with 4000 native bee species for resources like pollen and nectar.
What are European or Western Honeybees?
Responsible for morning energy worldwide, this economically vital cash crop relies on small insects like midges and stingless bees for pollination.
What is coffee?
Unlike their bright daytime butterfly cousins, these mostly night-shift pollinators are heavily attracted to pale, heavily scented flowers that bloom after dark
What are moths?
By triggering the creation of seeds, berries, and nuts, pollinators form the foundational base of these natural feeding networks for birds, mammals, and insects.
What are wildlife food webs?
This type of bee is named after their behavior to build nests using mud. They are also known for their ability to hold pollen on their bellies and their incredible pollination efficiency with a female being able to pollinate thousand of flowers in a single day (with a 99% pollination success ratio).
What are mason bees?
This has been causing plants to shift their blooming season and geological shifts, which has resulted in insect cycles to fall out of sync leading to incomplete pollination.
Entirely dependent on honeybees brought in by truckloads every spring, this California-grown nut crop is the largest managed pollination event in the world.
What are almonds?
Often considered clumsy insects, these ancient flyers account for the pollination of nearly 90% of the world's flowering plant species, frequently visiting blooms like magnolias to feed and mate.
What are beetles?
Economists estimate that pollinators add billions of dollars annually to global markets by boosting agricultural yields and driving these two commercial hive-derived products.
What are honey and wax?
This type of bee is known most for its unusual attraction to humans to drink the salt and minerals in human perspiration. They then provide the nutrients to their young.
What are sweat bees?
This external parasitic mite originates in Asia but is now considered the most destructive and dangerous parasitic threat to honeybees worldwide.
What are Varroa Mites or Varroa destructor?
This popular nightshade crop, valued for its lycopene-rich fruit, often benefits from "buzz pollination" (sonication) where bumblebees vibrate their flight muscles to shake loose pollen from tightly sealed anthers.
What is a tomato?
Serving as the sole pollinators for certain isolated island ecosystems, these primates plunge their faces into large, bell-shaped flowers to lap up nectar
What are lemurs?
Many plants that rely strictly on animal pollination are later harvested by humans to produce these life-saving pharmaceutical drugs and industrial goods.
What are medicines (or natural fibers/essential oils)?