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chabeslast Wednesday at 5:07 PM8 repliesview on HN

A lot of plants aren’t pollinated by bees. There’s pollinator wasps, flies, moths, butterflies… even birds and bats are pollinators


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rob74today at 11:51 AM

One of those moths is this guy, who (in flight, not so much in still images) looks and sounds like a miniature hummingbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth

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FerretFredtoday at 12:01 PM

I have to say that if we're also talking about wild grasses, my wire fox terrier is also a pollinator. He collects an incredible amount of seeds and burrs during his walkies investigations and I have to pick them out of his fur afterwards (risky because he gets annoyed easily).

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broengtoday at 11:48 AM

And olive trees have genders, with the male pollinating the surrounding females.

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cmrdporcupinetoday at 12:45 PM

My pawpaws (Asimina triloba) mainly need (house) flies to pollinate. They make their flowers look like meat.

I have a couple 100 foot rows of them, it's tricky to get good pollination.

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williamdclttoday at 9:40 AM

mosquitoes too, though it pains me to give them credit for anything

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palatatoday at 9:33 AM

Ants as well

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aaron695today at 12:07 PM

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