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Every time you eat an apple, a strawberry, or a spoonful of honey, you have a tiny creaturecreature (noun)A living being, especially an animal.≈ Synonym: animal🇺🇿UZ: jonzot🇷🇺RU: существо to thank: the pollinatorpollinator (noun)An animal that carries pollen between flowers.≈ Synonym: pollinating insect🇺🇿UZ: changlatuvchi🇷🇺RU: опылитель. Bees, butterflies, mothsmoth (noun)Insects similar to butterflies, usually active at night.≈ Synonym: night-flying insects🇺🇿UZ: kuya (parvonalar)🇷🇺RU: мотыльки, and even some batsbat (noun)Flying mammals active mostly at night.≈ Synonym: flying mammals🇺🇿UZ: ko'rshapalaklar🇷🇺RU: летучие мыши and birds carry pollenpollen (noun)A fine powder produced by flowers for reproduction.≈ Synonym: flower dust🇺🇿UZ: gulchang🇷🇺RU: пыльца from flowerflower (noun)The colourful reproductive part of a plant.≈ Synonym: blossom🇺🇿UZ: gul🇷🇺RU: цветок to flower, allowing plantsplant (noun)Living organisms that grow in soil, typically with leaves.≈ Synonym: vegetation🇺🇿UZ: o'simliklar🇷🇺RU: растения to produce seedsseed (noun)The parts of a plant from which new plants grow.≈ Synonym: grains🇺🇿UZ: urug'lar🇷🇺RU: семена and fruit. Without this process, called pollinationpollination (noun)The transfer of pollen enabling plants to reproduce.≈ Synonym: fertilisation of plants🇺🇿UZ: changlanish🇷🇺RU: опыление, much of the foodfood (noun)Substances eaten to sustain life.≈ Synonym: nourishment🇺🇿UZ: ovqat🇷🇺RU: еда we eat simply could not exist.
Scientistsscientist (noun)People who study and research the natural world.≈ Synonym: researchers🇺🇿UZ: olimlar🇷🇺RU: учёные estimate that around one in every three bites of food depends on pollinators in some way. Crops like almonds, apples, coffee, and cacao — the plant used to make chocolatechocolate (noun)A sweet food made from cacao beans.≈ Synonym: cacao product🇺🇿UZ: shokolad🇷🇺RU: шоколад — all rely heavilyheavily (adverb)To a great degree; strongly.≈ Synonym: greatly🇺🇿UZ: kuchli tarzda🇷🇺RU: сильно on bees and other insects to reproduce. Even crops that do not need pollinators directly, such as wheatwheat (noun)A cereal grain used to make flour and bread.≈ Synonym: grain crop🇺🇿UZ: bug'doy🇷🇺RU: пшеница and rice, benefit indirectlyindirectly (adverb)Not in a direct way.≈ Synonym: not directly🇺🇿UZ: bilvosita🇷🇺RU: косвенно, since pollinators support the wider ecosystemsecosystem (noun)Communities of living things and their environment.≈ Synonym: biological systems🇺🇿UZ: ekotizimlar🇷🇺RU: экосистемы that keep farmland healthy.
Honeybees are the most famousfamous (adj)Known about by many people.≈ Synonym: well-known🇺🇿UZ: mashhur🇷🇺RU: известный pollinators, but they are far from the only ones. There are more than 20,000 known speciesspecies (noun)Groups of animals or plants with shared characteristics.≈ Synonym: kinds🇺🇿UZ: turlar🇷🇺RU: виды of wildwild (adj)Living or growing in a natural, uncultivated state.≈ Synonym: untamed🇺🇿UZ: yovvoyi🇷🇺RU: дикий bees around the world, along with countless butterflies, beetlesbeetle (noun)Insects with hard front wings covering the back ones.≈ Synonym: insects🇺🇿UZ: qo'ng'izlar🇷🇺RU: жуки, and hoverflieshoverfly (noun)Flies that hover in the air and visit flowers.≈ Synonym: flower flies🇺🇿UZ: gul pashshalari🇷🇺RU: журчалки that also carry pollen. In some parts of the world, bats and hummingbirdshummingbird (noun)Small, fast-flying birds that feed on nectar.≈ Synonym: nectar birds🇺🇿UZ: kolibri🇷🇺RU: колибри play this rolerole (noun)The function or part played in a situation.≈ Synonym: function🇺🇿UZ: vazifa🇷🇺RU: роль instead, especially for plants that open their flowers at night.
Unfortunately, pollinator populationspopulation (noun)The numbers of a particular species in an area.≈ Synonym: numbers🇺🇿UZ: populyatsiyalar🇷🇺RU: популяции are declining in many regions. Pesticidespesticide (noun)Chemicals used to kill pests harmful to crops.≈ Synonym: pest killers🇺🇿UZ: pestitsidlar🇷🇺RU: пестициды used in farming can be harmful to bees, while the loss of wildflowers and naturalnatural (adj)Existing in nature; not made by people.≈ Synonym: unspoiled🇺🇿UZ: tabiiy🇷🇺RU: природный habitats leaves pollinators with less food and fewer places to live. Climate changeclimate change (noun)Long-term changes in Earth's climate patterns.≈ Synonym: global warming🇺🇿UZ: iqlim o'zgarishi🇷🇺RU: изменение климата is also shifting the timing of flowering seasons, sometimes leaving pollinators without food when they need it most.
Protecting pollinators does not always require large-scalelarge-scale (adj)Happening on a big or wide level.≈ Synonym: widespread🇺🇿UZ: yirik miqyosdagi🇷🇺RU: масштабный action. Planting nativenative (adj)Naturally occurring in a particular place.≈ Synonym: indigenous🇺🇿UZ: mahalliy🇷🇺RU: местный (коренной) flowers, avoiding unnecessary pesticide use, and leaving small wild areas in gardens and farms can all help. Governments and farmers are also exploring ways to make agriculture more pollinator-friendly, from reducing chemical use to creating "bee corridorsbee corridor (noun)Strips of flowering plants that help bees travel safely.≈ Synonym: pollinator paths🇺🇿UZ: asalarilar yo'lagi🇷🇺RU: коридоры для пчёл" of flowering plants between farms. Protecting these small creatures, it turns out, is essential for feeding the whole planet.