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The importance of Wildflowers and Insects
Plants
Insects pollinate
plants and trees.
Birds
Insectivorous birds, chicks of seed eaters
Amphibians
Frogs, toads, newts
Reptiles
Slow worms, lizards
“Insects have lived for tens of thousands of years without humans, but humans cannot live without insects”. David Attenborough BBC Nature Programme producer and Chairman of Butterfly Conservation.
Without Bees, Butterflies and other flying insects to pollinate our fruit trees and vegetables, there would soon be very little food in the world for us to eat. Man and all other animals would starve to death.
Albert Einstein reckoned it would be no more than 4 years between the death of the last bee and the death of all human life.
