USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
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Food Web Fact SheetsPollination 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).
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