Let’s not forget about the beautiful and necessary pollinators that provide mutual support for our ecosystem. Pollinators like honeybees, butterflies, birds, bats, and other animals are hard at work providing vital but often unnoticed services. They pollinate crops like apples, bananas, blueberries, strawberries, melon, peaches, potatoes, vanilla, almonds, coffee, and chocolate. Even ‘self-pollinating plants’, like grapes, need wind/insects/birds to make it all happen; boosting production drastically. Some scientists estimate that one out of every three bites of food we eat exists because of pollinators.

During a flower visit, a pollinator may accidentally brush against the flower’s reproductive parts, unknowingly depositing pollen from flower to flower.