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Central Texas | Learned something new about mosquitoes when in Peru. Peru has no bees and that mosquitoes pollinate everything. Looked on web and said the same about mosquitoes.
May be that it was the same here originally that mosquitoes were main pollinators.
From web:
Most people think of mosquitoes only as insects that suck blood, but they have another niche in the ecosystem–they pollinate flowers. Male mosquitoes never bite, and the females need the protein in blood only to produce eggs, so the normal food of adult mosquitoes is actually nectar from plants.
Though they don’t gather pollen like bees, they fly from flower to flower to feed, and along the way, they carry pollen from one blossom to the other. | |
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Learned something new about honey bees
