"Buzzing with Color"
Honey Bee (Apis), Northern California.
There are essentially 200,000 varieties of animal pollinators, with the majority of those being insects. Some of the major contributors of the pollination process are Honey bees, Solitary bees, Bumblebees, Carpenter bees, Alfalfa leaf-cutter bees, moths, Butterflies, and flies.
Some plants like the carrot do not need to be pollinated to grow from seed into food, however they do require insect pollination to produce seeds. Photography and graphics by Brenda Kay Brown Garibay