Did you know? In the United States, pollination by honey bees, native bees, and other insects produces 40 billion dollars worth of economic value every year. In fact, 150 food crops in the US are dependent on pollinators and these include almost all fruit and grain crops. Globally, more than half of the world’s diet of fats and oils come from animal-pollinated plants–think oil palm, canola, and sunflowers, and 75% of an estimated 1,300 types of plants grown around the world for foods, medicines, spices, condiments, and fabric need pollinators.
So… what exactly is pollination?
