A collection
Pollinators
The bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and quiet workers whose visits to flowers built the modern flowering world and the food on our plates.
Flowering plants and pollinators evolved together, and most flowers exist as they do because of the animal that delivers their pollen. Honey bees and monarch butterflies are the species most people think of first, but the pollinator guild also includes hundreds of native bee species, hoverflies, hummingbirds, moths, beetles, and (in tropical systems) bats. Together they support roughly a third of global food production. The species in this collection are the iconic pollinators of North America and beyond — drawn in the woodcut tradition that gave entomology its first widely-read field guides.
