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Food Web Fact Sheets

Pictures arranged in a wheel of a variety of animals, insects and bats, shown pollinating flowers.

Pollination is not just fascinating natural history. It is an essential ecological survival function. Without pollinators, the human race and all of earth's terrestrial ecosystems would not survive. Almost 80% 0f the 1,400 crop plants grown around the world that produce all of our food and plant-based industrial products require pollination by animals.

Other organisms, both plant and animal, besides humans benefit from pollinators. Visit the fact sheets below to see who else depends on pollinators. The fact sheets all are in Adobe PDF format.

These facts sheets are prepared and provided by The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC).

grizzly bear.
The "Bear" Facts (PDF, 246 KB)

songbird feeding a baby bird in a nest.
Song Birds (PDF, 360 KB)

sage grouse.
Sage Grouse (PDF, 261 KB)

fly on a flower.
Pollinators (PDF, 154 KB)

Map of Chesapeake Bay.
Native Plants and Animals of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (PDF, 257 KB)

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Location: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/factsheets.shtml
Last modified: Tuesday, 20-May-2008 15:56:15 EDT