Honey Bee Pollination

Your garden, your grocery store, your refrigerator and your favorite restaurant are filled with ingredients and foods that honey bees pollinate. In fact, honey bee pollination is required for the commercial production of many of these crops. Without honey bee pollination, our meals would be way less colorful. No guacamole for taco tuesday, no orange juice for breakfast and no almond butter sandwiches for lunch.

The Beekeeper’s Handbook developed this list of commercial crops that require honey bee pollination. See a lot of fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices that you love? Thank a honey bee! Without honey bees we would no longer have widespread availability of the following foods and ingredients.

Pollination List

  • Alfalfa
    Allspice
    Almonds
    Alsike clover
    Apples
    Artichoke
    Asparagus
    Avocado
    Berseem
    Blackberries
    Blueberries
    Broccoli
    Brussels sprouts
    Buckwheat
    Cabbage
    Cacao
    Cantaloupe
    Carambolo
    Caraway
    Cardamom
    Carrots
    Casaba
    Cashew
    Cauliflower
    Celeriac
    Celery
    Chayote
    Cherries
    Chicory
    Chinese gooseberry or kiwi
    Chives
    Cicer milkvetch
    Cinnamon
    Citron
    Clovers, minor
    Collards
    Coriander
    Cranberries
    Crenshaw
    Crimson clover
    Crownvetch
    Cucumbers
    Currants
    Cut flower seeds
    Dewberry
    Dill
    Drug plants
    Eggplants
    Fennel
    Garlic
    Gooseberries
    Herbs (spices)
    Honeyball
    Honeydew
    Huckleberry
    Jujube
    Kale
    Kenaf
    Kohlrabi
    Kola nut
    Lavender
    Leek
    Litchi
    Longan
    Lotus
    Macadamia
    Mango
    Mustard
    Niger
    Nutmeg
    Onion
    Parsley
    Parsnip
    Passion fruit
    Peaches & nectarines
    Pears
    Persian melon
    Persimmon
    Pimenta
    Plums & prunes
    Pummelo
    Pumpkin & squash
    Quinine
    Radish
    Rape
    Raspberries
    Red clover
    Rutabagas
    Sainfoin
    Sapote
    Sunflower
    Sweetclovers
    Sweetvetch
    Tangelo
    Tangerine
    Tea
    Tendergreens
    Trefoils
    Tung
    Turnips
    Vetch (hairy)
    Watermelon
    Welsh onion
    White clover
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