The Importance Of Insects

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in actuality these beauteous pieces of nature we call flowers use sight and smell as attractants for the bees. Plants advertise themselves to who they want to be pollinated by. For instance, some plants such as the honeysuckle and tobacco only give off their potent scent at night, when other plants are inactive. Although during the day these plants may not be the most popular, during the night they serve as quite a feast for many nocturnal moths as well as some bees. Certain insects have developed bonds in which their sole association is with a single plant. The yucca moth and the yucca depend on each other, as do the fig wasp and the fig tree, as you can tell by the names.
The bee's commercial products are extensive, as are the profits. The art of husbanding bees is as old as the temples of Egypt, because that's when and where it started. Bees create honey, and beeswax. The honey has a rather obvious use, while beeswax is more diverse and can be used to make a number of ...

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