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Pollinator Teaching Collection
Did you know that 1 in 3 bites of food is the direct result of arthropod pollination? Or that 85% of the world’s flowering plants directly rely on insects to reproduce? Pollinators are essential workers on the front line of ecosystem health and agricultural support. Bees, butterflies, and the less commonly acknowledged, moths, wasps, beetles, and flies are keystone species in most terrestrial ecosystems.
The evolutionary relationship between flowers and pollinating insects goes as far back as 140-110 million years ago in the mid-Cretaceous. Today, more than 100 crops grown in the United States require or benefit from pollinators with native pollinators estimated to provide $3 billion per year of economic value in the US.
Included within this kit are 21 pollinator examples, many of which represent diverse forms of pollination strategies and flower specializations. Therefore, the included specimens help to illustrate the primary groups of arthropods that positively provide economic and environmental services to humanity from ecological and agricultural perspectives.
Specimens come either “papered” (preserved as dried specimens or come in alcohol in clear, archival-quality glass vials with poly-seal caps to prevent evaporation) or “pinned” where specimens are pinned, labeled, and shipped in a riker-style frame to protect the specimens while being handled, but still allow their easy viewing by students. All specimens are sent with alcohol-proof, and typed specimen data labels.
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$200.00 – $490.00
