Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 8/16/19

Pollinators are essential to the survival of many flowering plants, promoting the production of over 85% of our food and fiber producing crops.

A pollinator is any animal, most often insects like bees or butterflies, that carries pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for reproduction, usually while feeding and flying from plant to plant.

While wind, water and other factors contribute to plant pollination, most flowering plants rely on birds, bees and butterflies among others. Likewise, each and every one of us depend on productive pollinators to help provide us with the food we eat.

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