Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate.

Imagine you own a patch of land and have made it valuable through careful farming practices good seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and bees to pollinate the crops.

Imagine you own a patch of land and have made it valuable through careful farming practices good seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and bees to pollinate the crops. But now someone comes along and says, We will divide your land into smaller parcels and charge you to protect each of them.

They lay their eggs in it, thinking it's a nice bit of carrion, and not realizing that there's no food for the eggs, that the eggs are going to die, but the plant, meanwhile, has benefited, because the bristles release and the flies disappear to pollinate the next flower fantastic.