BATS ARE POLLINATORS! 🌺 🦇 🌸 From deserts of the American Southwest to the high Andes of South America and the Caribbean Islands, hundreds of species of agave and cactus plants rely on bats for pollination. 🥃 Mexico’s entire tequila industry relies on bats to pollinate agave. 🍌 All commercial bananas originated from bat-pollinated ancestors in SE Asia. Commercial bananas in the U.S. don’t have seeds, so they don’t need to be pollinated, but the wild bat-pollinated bananas remain key sources
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BATS ARE POLLINATORS! 🌺 🦇 🌸 From deserts of the American Southwest to the high Andes of South America and the Caribbean Islands, hundreds of species of agave and cactus plants rely on bats for pollination. 🥃 Mexico’s entire tequila industry relies on bats to pollinate agave. 🍌 All commercial bananas originated from bat-pollinated ancestors in SE Asia. Commercial bananas in the U.S. don’t have seeds, so they don’t need to be pollinated, but the wild bat-pollinated bananas remain key sources
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