Get to know our pollinators
These include:
Bees, wasps, beetles, thrips, flies, ants, butterflies, and moths
Even though many pollinator insects are often tiny, their importance for the garden is particularly significant. They make an indispensable contribution to our nutrition. Especially in the vegetable garden, pollinators are essential because only pollinated plants produce large, healthy fruits.
Insects such as bees, wasps, flies, and beetles are the most important pollinators of wild and cultivated plants, providing an enormous ecological and economic benefit to nature and humans. 78% of all flowering plant species in temperate regions rely on insect pollination. Out of the 109 most important cultivated plants, no less than 87 species are entirely dependent on animal pollinators. Economically important crops such as apples, strawberries, almonds, tomatoes, and melons are among these species.
Bees, represented globally by over 20,000 species and 750 species in Central Europe, constitute the most important group of pollinators among insects.
