Why we need bees

timojin said:
I second that. I am a honey consumer in daily bases.

Do wasps pollinate same as bees ?
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Pollinators;
A pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or 'syngamy' of the female gametes in the ovule of the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grain. A pollinator is different from a pollenizer, which is a plant that is a source of pollen for the pollination process. Anthecology is the scientific study of pollination.
Insect pollinators include bees, (honey bees, solitary species, bumblebees); pollen wasps (Masarinae); ants; a variety of flies including bee flies and hoverflies; lepidopterans, both butterflies and moths; and flower beetles. Vertebrates, mainly bats and birds, but also some non-bat mammals (monkeys, lemurs, possums, rodents) and some reptiles (lizards and snakes) pollinate certain plants. Among the pollinating birds are hummingbirds, honeyeaters and sunbirds with long beaks; they pollinate a number of deep-throated flowers.
Cycads, which are not flowering plants, are also pollinated by insects.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator

Seems that almost any animal which regularly comes into contact with flowering plants , will act as a pollinator. But IMO, the honeybee is the only insect that lives in a pure symbiotic state with flowering plants. IOW, is feeds exclusively on flowers, while other insects are more opportunistic in their sources of food and do not depend exclusively on flowering plants for survival.
 
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