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Some examples of animal pollinators are bees, butterflies, beetles, flies, birds, bats, and a few small mammals. [2] This wide range of species seek out the nectar produced by the plants as food source or in the famous case of honey bees the key ingredient for making honey. This is an example of mutualism where the pollinators receive a ...
Bees pollinating a sunflower head. Sunflowers have been proven to be excellent plants to attract beneficial insects, including pollinators. Helianthus spp. are a nectar producing flowering plant that attract pollinators and parasitoids which reduce the pest populations in nearby crop vegetation.
Alas, most sunflowers are annual flowers, meaning they do not come back each year like perennial flowers. But, there's a few pieces of good news. But, there's a few pieces of good news.
Honey bees pollinate many plant species that are not native to their natural habitat but are often inefficient pollinators of such plants; if they are visiting ten different species of flower, only a tenth of the pollen they carry may be the right species. Other bees tend to favor one species at a time, therefore do most of the actual pollination.
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The sunflower was chosen as the symbol of the Spiritualist Church, for many reasons, but mostly because of the (false) belief that the flowers turn toward the sun as "Spiritualism turns toward the light of truth". Modern Spiritualists often have art or jewelry with sunflower designs. [83] The sunflower is often used as a symbol of green ideology.
Ground bees are considered to be great yard aerators. Spring mining bees are also generalist pollinators, which is why they’re found on some of the earliest blooming flowers of the season.
Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) nectaring at daisy (Argyranthemum)Pollination syndromes are suites of flower traits that have evolved in response to natural selection imposed by different pollen vectors, which can be abiotic (wind and water) or biotic, such as birds, bees, flies, and so forth through a process called pollinator-mediated selection.