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What is Pollination?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"Pollination<\/p>\n

When a pollen grain moves from the anther (male part) of a flower to the stigma (female part), pollination happens. This is the first step in a process that produces seeds, fruits, and the next generation of plants. This can happen through self-pollination, wind and water pollination, or through the work of vectors that move pollen within the flower and from bloom to bloom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Why do we need pollinators?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us\u00a0one out of every three bites of food.<\/strong>\u00a0They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce.<\/p>\n

Pollinating animals travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their bodies in a vital interaction that allows the transfer of genetic material critical to the reproductive system of most flowering plants \u2013 the very plants that<\/p>\n