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Flowers offer theses pollinators nector -- a tasty product that is hard for them to refuse.. While reaching to sip the nector , the visitor invariably gets a good dusting of pollen on it's body.. Seeking another taste of nector, it then transports the pollen to the next flower...
Insects do so by far the most pollination , expecially in temporate lands.. They visit countless flowers every day while feeding on nector and pollen.*
* Two pounds of honey requires that bees make about ten million trips to individual flowers.. *
" Probably the most important contribution made by insects to human health and well being, "explains professor May Berenbaum, is one for which they get little credit: pollination. "
Fruit trees usually have flowers that depend on cross-pollination to produce a good crop.
Hence, you see how important the transportation of pollen is to our well-being...
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