Plant owners view grasshoppers and crickets as greenery-eating pests, but new research indicates some of these insects pollinate flowers in the same way butterflies and bees do.
These new-found pollinators belong to the family of insects known as orthopterans, according to doctoral student Tan Ming Kai, who made the discovery in a three-year study of five South-east Asian countries, including Singapore.
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