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Which came first - the flower or tbe pollinator? It’s a question with no easy answer, for they depend on each other for their existence.
There are of course some sugar gnups of plants which rely only on the wind for pollination, such as grasses and many forest trees. But if a plant has a colorful flower; you can bet that there’s a winged visitor which appreciates that blossom even more than we do, collecting sweet nectar and simultaneously carrying pollen from bloom to bloom.
Without the pollinator; there would be no seeds or fruit, and thus no future generation of the plant — and ultimately no future generations of the pollinator either.
For many of our fruit trees and crop
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