[Pollinator] Re: Educatonal Materials About Pollinators

[Matthew Shepherd (Xerces Society)]

"Without honeybees there would be no pollination of plants."

Huh? I'm afraid that I find it difficult to take seriously any pollinator education material with that in its introduction. What about flies? Or beetles? Or wind? Or bats and birds? Not to mention moths, butterflies, and the myriad of other bees? Yes, honey bees are an important agricultural pollinator, no one is denying that, but would pollination cease if they were to disappear from this continent? Nope.

Matthew
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