It has been discovered that between 75 percent and 95 percent of all flowering plants in the earth need to be pollinated. Pollinators provide their services to over 180,000 different plant species and more than 1,200 crops. In other words, one out of every three bites of food we eat is there because of pollinators. In dollars and cents, they add $217 billion to the global economy and honey bees alone are responsible for between $1.2 and $5.4 billion in agricultural productivity in the US. They also are responsible for supporting environmental systems that provide clean air, protect soil from erosion, and wildlife from distinction.