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7:47 AM
Chocolate and Midges
The flowering Theobroma cacao tree relies on pollinators to reproduce, and successful fertilization creates the fruit that yields the cocoa beans so many of us love to eat, with lots of sugar and fat mixed in, as chocolate. We tend to think of bees when we think of pollinators, but for feeding our chocolate addictions, we have to thank midges – insects about the size of a pinhead. They belong to a family of small biting flies called Ceratopogonidae.
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