Flowering plants live in symbiosis with the diversity of animals that feed on the nectar they produce in exchange for pollinating them. We are all familiar with honeybees, but many other animals also have interdependence with flowers - including stingless bees, moths and butterflies, sunbirds and even bushbabies and fruitbats.

Wild pollinators are essential not only for survival of wild plants, but for a large proportion of the crops we depend on for our food and livelihoods. Such crops rely on nearby pollinator refuges of wild flowering plants to feed pollinators year-round, so they are abundant seasonally when agricultural crops flower.

Here are our recommendations of indigenous Zanzibar species important for pollinators.

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