With all the damages from hurricanes, the wind certainly gets a bad rap. Looking at all the damages caused by Floyd and friends, it is hard to imagine any benefit from even a light breeze. But there are a large number of life forms which depend on just such a light wind. The wind is a major distributor of plant and insect life on Earth. Because plants are sedentary, they had to be creative as they evolved to ensure their survival, and so they quickly put wind to use.
Dandelions can ride on their beneath that fluffy down, can drift for hours on a breeze.
A study of air samples was done over Louisiana. But the same sample yielded more than just plant seeds. When we look up into the sky, we see the usual flocks of birds, leaves floating lazily along in the breeze and the occasional butterfly but it mostly seems to be an empty place. But this is not the case. Life on the breeze is not just limited to the temperate regions either, though that it where is is most abundant.