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Hummingbirds

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Role: Pollinating plants with tubular flowers. Decline: Habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change.

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Carpenter Bee

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Role: Pollination of a variety of plants; they can drill into wood to create nest sites. Decline: Habitat loss, pesticides, and human control measures for property damage.

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Green Sweat Bee

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Role: Generalist pollinator, contributes to the pollination of many plant species. Decline: Pesticides, habitat destruction, metal pollution.

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Painted Lady Butterfly

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Role: Pollination of a wide range of plants; known for its long migrations. Decline: Habitat loss, climate change, pesticide use.

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Western Honeybee

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Role: Pollination of numerous crops and wild plants. Decline: Unlike the general honeybee, specifically faces threats from competition with domesticated honeybees, habitat loss.

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Honeybee

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Role: Pollination of many crops and wild plants. Decline: Colony Collapse Disorder, pesticides, habitat loss.

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Bumblebee

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Role: Pollinating crops and wildflowers, especially those with deeper flowers. Decline: Pesticides, climate change, habitat destruction.

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Wild Bee

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Role: Pollination of many plant species, important for ecosystem health and biodiversity. Decline: Pesticides, habitat destruction, competition with managed bees.

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Black-and-Yellow Mud Dauber Wasp

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Role: Pollination incidental to their hunting of spiders; they can also contribute to plant pollination. Decline: Habitat alteration, pesticide use, nest removal from human structures.

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Hoverfly

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Role: Pollination of a wide variety of plants and serves as natural pest control. Decline: Pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.

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Mason Bee

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Role: Pollination of early spring flowers, fruit trees, and bushes. Decline: Use of pesticides, loss of nesting habitats, climate change.

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Gulf Fritillary Butterfly

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Role: Pollination of various flowers; their larval host plant is passionflower. Decline: Habitat loss, pesticide use, loss of host plants.

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Blue Orchard Bee

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Role: Pollinating orchard crops such as apple, cherry, and almond. Decline: Competition with domestic bees, habitat loss, pesticide exposure.

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Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

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Role: Pollination of a variety of flowers; they are particularly attracted to milkweed and thistles. Decline: Habitat reduction, pesticide exposure, herbicides.

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Ants

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Role: Less effective pollinators but do contribute in some ecosystems. Decline: Habitat destruction, use of ant poisons, climate extremes.

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Bat

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Role: Pollination of tropical and desert plants, including agave and cacti. Decline: White-nose syndrome, habitat loss, wind turbines.

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Fig Wasp

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Role: Exclusive pollinator for figs, mutualistic relationship with the fig tree. Decline: Habitat destruction, climate change.

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

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Role: Pollination of a wide variety of plants. Decline: Deforestation, urban sprawl, pollution.

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Squash Bee

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Role: Pollination of cucurbits such as squash and pumpkins. Decline: Loss of wild habitats, pesticide use, and tillage practices.

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Leafcutter Bee

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Role: Effective pollinator for alfalfa and other crops. Decline: Pesticides, habitat loss, diseases spread by commercial bees.

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Lesser Long-Nosed Bat

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Role: Important pollinator for agave and columnar cacti. Decline: Habitat loss, agave harvesting, and tequila production practices, climate change.

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Monarch Butterfly

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Role: Pollination of many types of wildflowers. Decline: Herbicides, loss of milkweed plants (larval food source), and climate change.

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Hawk Moth

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Role: Pollination of flowers with long tubes, nocturnal pollination. Decline: Pesticide use, light pollution, habitat fragmentation.

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Alkali Bee

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Role: Effective pollinator of alfalfa. Decline: Land use changes, pesticide drift from nearby crops, habitat loss.

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Long-Horned Bee

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Role: Pollinating wildflowers and several crops. Decline: Loss of prairies and grasslands, pesticide use, and climate change.

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