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But there is nothing redundant about my kind; we remain more numerous in species than our new cousins: for every bee species, there are at least five different species of my kind. But my kind were pollinating plants millions of years before the bees: today, we matter to over 700 species of plants from more than 100 families. Bees, as our descendants, inherited our need to visit flowers for sugar; they evolved a new use for the pollen found in flowers, to raise their babies. [Extracted from the article] |