Pollinators

Peter Lane Warren, is an urban horticulture agent of University of Arizona. Warren, of the Arizona Pest Management Center, can speak broadly about various types of pollinators, including birds, bats, moths and bees. Warren reguluarly educates homeowners and landscape professionals about integrated pest management and best practices to help sustain pollinators. "Bees are the champion pollinators. They are the most important pollinators and the ones we recognize and justifiably so for their work in pollinating the food we eat. There are other pollinators, bats, moths, birds, a variety of other insects all playing a small role. Some things are very specific like the Yucca moth which is the only pollinator of the Yucca. Those two organisms have become dependent upon each other. Most insects, because they don't seek out pollen like bees do for food, it's just an incidental contact thing with them. They are after the nectar and they don't actively transport pollen as well as bees do. Another reason is that they are not as hairy as bees.