Honeybee on white clover and Tūī feeding on harakeke

Honeybee on white clover and Tui feeding on harakeke

Honeybee on white clover. Honeybees help white clover produce seeds for pasture renewal. Without them, commercial clover-seed production would become considerably harder. Photo: Andy Murray, New Zealand, 2014. CC BY-SA 2.0. Wikimedia Commons

Tūī feeding on harakeke. Tūī transfer pollen between harakeke flowers. Native birds were helping New Zealand's plants reproduce long before European honeybees arrived. Photo: Sid Mosdell, 2011. CC BY 2.0 Wikimedia Commons