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Hummingbirds
Role: Pollinating plants with tubular flowers. Decline: Habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change.
Carpenter Bee
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.
Green Sweat Bee
Role: Generalist pollinator, contributes to the pollination of many plant species. Decline: Pesticides, habitat destruction, metal pollution.
Painted Lady Butterfly
Role: Pollination of a wide range of plants; known for its long migrations. Decline: Habitat loss, climate change, pesticide use.
Western Honeybee
Role: Pollination of numerous crops and wild plants. Decline: Unlike the general honeybee, specifically faces threats from competition with domesticated honeybees, habitat loss.
Honeybee
Role: Pollination of many crops and wild plants. Decline: Colony Collapse Disorder, pesticides, habitat loss.
Bumblebee
Role: Pollinating crops and wildflowers, especially those with deeper flowers. Decline: Pesticides, climate change, habitat destruction.
Wild Bee
Role: Pollination of many plant species, important for ecosystem health and biodiversity. Decline: Pesticides, habitat destruction, competition with managed bees.
Black-and-Yellow Mud Dauber Wasp
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.
Hoverfly
Role: Pollination of a wide variety of plants and serves as natural pest control. Decline: Pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.
Mason Bee
Role: Pollination of early spring flowers, fruit trees, and bushes. Decline: Use of pesticides, loss of nesting habitats, climate change.
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
Role: Pollination of various flowers; their larval host plant is passionflower. Decline: Habitat loss, pesticide use, loss of host plants.
Blue Orchard Bee
Role: Pollinating orchard crops such as apple, cherry, and almond. Decline: Competition with domestic bees, habitat loss, pesticide exposure.
Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly
Role: Pollination of a variety of flowers; they are particularly attracted to milkweed and thistles. Decline: Habitat reduction, pesticide exposure, herbicides.
Ants
Role: Less effective pollinators but do contribute in some ecosystems. Decline: Habitat destruction, use of ant poisons, climate extremes.
Bat
Role: Pollination of tropical and desert plants, including agave and cacti. Decline: White-nose syndrome, habitat loss, wind turbines.
Fig Wasp
Role: Exclusive pollinator for figs, mutualistic relationship with the fig tree. Decline: Habitat destruction, climate change.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Role: Pollination of a wide variety of plants. Decline: Deforestation, urban sprawl, pollution.
Squash Bee
Role: Pollination of cucurbits such as squash and pumpkins. Decline: Loss of wild habitats, pesticide use, and tillage practices.
Leafcutter Bee
Role: Effective pollinator for alfalfa and other crops. Decline: Pesticides, habitat loss, diseases spread by commercial bees.
Lesser Long-Nosed Bat
Role: Important pollinator for agave and columnar cacti. Decline: Habitat loss, agave harvesting, and tequila production practices, climate change.
Monarch Butterfly
Role: Pollination of many types of wildflowers. Decline: Herbicides, loss of milkweed plants (larval food source), and climate change.
Hawk Moth
Role: Pollination of flowers with long tubes, nocturnal pollination. Decline: Pesticide use, light pollution, habitat fragmentation.
Alkali Bee
Role: Effective pollinator of alfalfa. Decline: Land use changes, pesticide drift from nearby crops, habitat loss.
Long-Horned Bee
Role: Pollinating wildflowers and several crops. Decline: Loss of prairies and grasslands, pesticide use, and climate change.
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