Native pollinators are vital to creating and maintaining the habitats and ecosystems that most animals rely on for food and shelter — including humans. What happens (or doesn’t happen) at the pollination scale has repercussions all the way up the food chain. Over 80% of the flowering plants on Earth depend upon insect‐mediated pollination; bees alone pollinate 45% of the food crops grown in Massachusetts, and one‐third of them food grown in the United States.