A gourmet ice cream company started a charitable campaign to save an insect species. Which species are they most likely to care about, and why?
A) Cockroaches. In the 1950s, the company nearly eradicated a certain species of roach, but subsequently learned they are valuable pollinators.
B) Cochineal insects. They are the only natural source of red food dye.
C) The honeybee. They explain that half of their ingredients, and a significant portion of our food supply in general, rely on bee pollination, and bee populations have been suffering from the poorly-understood Colony Collapse Disorder.
D) Butterflies. They explain that half of their ingredients, and a significant portion of our general food supply, rely on butterfly pollination, and butterfly populations have suffered from the spread of "bug zappers" in the suburbs.
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