Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Hamm & Ssymank The pollinators buffet
Musa balbisiana (Musaceae)
Crop name: Banana
Positive impact by animal pollination: great/essential
Origin: SE Asia
Main producers: Brasilien, Ecuador, Honduras, Costa
Rica, Panama
Main pollinators and visitors: Bats (Chiroptera, Megachiroptera)
Birds (Aves)
Nephelium litchi (Sapindaceae)
Crop name: Litchi
Positive impact by animal pollination: little
Origin: S China
Main producers: India, China
Main pollinators and visitors: Bees, Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Honey bees (Apis sp.); Stingless bees
(Meliponini: Trigona sp.)
Flies (Diptera)
Flowerflies (Syrphidae)
Photo: A. Hamm
Photo: A. Hamm
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