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cant declines.”
Strictly speaking, any animal with hair can be a pollinator, including humans that catch the pollen on their clothes.
The North American continent has more than 1,000 species, including the bumblebee and orchard bee. Those species kept pollination alive and well until mechanized farming became the norm.
The European honeybee soon found itself as the ideal pollinator when the orchards grew in size. Farmers found the need for a lot of pollination within a short period of time. Today, many beekeepers make a living by transporting the hives to orchards, rather than harvesting the honey.
Honeybees have longer tongues, which allow them to catch pollen in smaller flowers. And they leave the flowers unscathed, unlike the carpenter bee, which chews through the side.
Honeybees live far longer than the natives, and are far more active. A single hive can host nearly 60,000 insects.
Most orchards today depend on the honeybee to pollinate crops from cucumbers to cantaloupes. The apple and blueberry crops in Virginia rely on them completely, while almond
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