POLLINATORS

ollination is one of the cornerstones of life on Earth. As part of the wider global ecosystem, plants are the beginning of almost every food chain, are habitat builders and atmospheric oxygen producers. Without plants, the world would surely fall barren and unable to sustain life. That’s why the creatures that spend their time keeping the planet’s plant population alive are invaluable. Although not all plants require the helping hand of a pollinator, between 75 and 95 per cent of all flowering plants on Earth rely on pollinators to reproduce. There are two main types of pollination among flowering plants: selfpollination and cross-pollination. As the name suggests, self-pollination is all contained