Day 4 of National Pollinator Week: Beetles

When you think of pollinators, you think of bees, right? And well you should: honey bees are the global workhorses of the pollination community and pollinate about one-third of the food we eat, including fruits and vegetables and some nuts, primarily almonds (California's almond acreage exceeds 1.6 million.) But to continue the alliteration--butterflies, bats, birds and beetles are pollinators, too. That includes "the good guys and gals," the lady beetles, aka ladybugs, which devour...