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Not many realize this, but sticking with the non-bee pollination theme you have things like beetles, butterflies, moths, some species of flies, ants, wasps... the list goes on.
Non-inscect options include some speciea of bats and birds.
That's not even getting into the tons of other useful things insects do.
1/4th of all known organisms are a beatle
Statistically speaking one of them must be a beatle 🧐
I always said that if I wasn't a human, I would be a rhinoceros beetle (kabutomushi).
Apparently I may have been right!
That is a very strange thing to say but I vibe with it
I once heard someone smarter than me say that if all insects were to vanish the earth’s ecosystems would fully collapse in 10 years.
Considering what insects do for our planet, I believe it.
Also insects are dying but so are other species