Poll Q: Which living species helps maximum in pollination to help fruit production around the world?
Options:
Moths
Birds
Humans
Flies
Wasps
Beetles
Bees
Butterflies
Bats
Animals
Ans: Bees r the number #1 pollinators in the world. Their bodies r designed to carry pollen from flower to flower thereby helping maximum pollination unlike other pollinators which can’t carry so much pollens. All other pollinators go to flowers to collect nectar, whereas bees need the pollens to feed their babies. So they visit 50-100 flowers per trip thereby helping pollination as well by carrying food for their offsprings.
Also, they visit one type of flower per trip ie only sunflowers in one trip so pollens from other species donot get mixed unlike butterflies which can go from rose to sunflower to jasmine, etc.
That is why bees r considered very precious in our ecosystem. With their diminishing population due to destruction of habitat, use of fertilizers and pesticides, climate change, etc, these free, unpaid farm helps r disappearing. If bees become extinct, the global food supply will shrink dramatically by around 70%.
Let us do an all out effort to conserve the bee population by planting more trees, avoiding chemicals in our day to day use and in farming, etc