Honeyeaters are the primary pollinators for native mistletoes and certain other nectar-producing plants. |
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The orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis belongs to a group of about 300 species that lure pollinators by mimicking a female insect. |
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As pollinators removed pollen from the thecae, their walls collapsed and the anthers curled down gradually. |
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Of all the types of bees, honeybees have several advantages as pollinators. |
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Even accounting for native bee pollinators, honeybees still do most of the pollinating of fruits and vegetables in your garden. |
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And if the poison is killing sugarbirds, it will kill sunbirds and any other pollinators such as insects. |
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At this stage, at least one theca is already opened, and pollinators are attracted to the flowers. |
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At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species. |
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Sepals and petals in the outer whorls are not sexual organs, but may serve to attract pollinators. |
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The mites don't affect other bee pollinators, such as bumblebees and leaf-cutting bees. |
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What will happen when genetically heterogeneous plant populations are pollinated by new pollinators? |
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A prerequisite for plant specialization is that differences among pollinators eventually translate into differential plant reproductive success. |
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This was mainly due to mammals browsing only on the larger fruits from flowers that had been exposed to pollinators. |
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Other fragrant scents to human senses are most often those produced by flowers visited by pollinators. |
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Instead, longer spurs only seem to be an advantage when long-tongued insects are the sole pollinators. |
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As well as pollinating the orchids, the bees are the chief pollinators of canopy trees. |
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Butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, and other pollinators will come for the banquet too. |
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It produces showy, tubular flowers in summer and is able to set seed if pollinators are available. |
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Some, including the honey bee, are important pollinators essential for the propagation of plants. |
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Plants pollinated by animals need to attract their pollinators in order to reproduce. |
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The effectiveness of exclusion through pore size is relatively easy to demonstrate for biotic pollinators by direct observation. |
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Several insects, birds and mammals have been suggested or proven as likely pollinators, but some species appear to be self-pollinated or even cleistogamous. |
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In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization. |
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Nope, to survive, the Dragon Arum needs to attract carrion-eating pollinators, which means that in the breeding season it will smell of rotten meat for a few days. |
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Composite flowers offer some of the best floral rewards, and pollinators have taken notice: bumblebees, syrphid flies, honeybees. |
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Flowers produce bug juice of a different sort — nectar designed to attract insects and other pollinators. |
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Learn more about pollinators like the bumble bee, monarch butterfly or the ruby-throated hummingbird. |
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Invite pollinators into a courtyard or other parts of your school grounds where once the bravest butterflies dared not go. |
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Bees, butterflies, and moths are important pollinators in Canada, but flies, beetles, and hummingbirds also work to pollinate plants. |
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Crabapple cultivars are not desirable for pollinators unless they are maggot resistant. |
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The spleenwort requires no insect pollinators, an effective if primitive reproductive technique. |
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If the weather is cold, the pollinators may be working very little or not at all, and pollen tube growth may be very slow. |
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Secondary pollinators were diurnal hawk moths and butterflies. |
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Some species of angiosperms have evolved to attract very specific pollinators. |
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Angiosperms attract potential pollinators with brightly coloured petals, sweet fragrances, or by producing nectar. |
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The large flower easily reveals how all speedwells adapt to their pollinators, bees and flower flies. |
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Insects serve as pollinators for food crops, nutritious sustenance for a range of birds and mammals, and decomposers of plant and animal products. |
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The environment will benefit as bees and silkworm butterflies are efficient pollinators and help protect crops from pests. |
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The flowers are self-incompatible and thus require insect pollinators to facilitate cross-pollination with other cultivars. |
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Plants evolve particular mixtures and concentrations of nectar to tempt pollinators to behave in ways that maximize pollination. |
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Parts of the pollinia stick to visiting insect pollinators, which then carry them to other flowers to facilitate cross-pollination. |
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A persistent habit of self-pollination apparently has been adopted successfully by some plant species whose natural pollinators have died out. |
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They are inadequately tested for their hazards to pollinators, even honeybees. |
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This lowers the contact danger to wildlife such as birds, mammals, and pollinators that visit crops during this time. |
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Loss of habitat may also be affecting the population of the orchid's pollinators, thereby reducing the plant's ability to reproduce. |
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The diversity and abundance of insect pollinators are in a global state of decline. |
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Natural pollinators in Ontario have a new ally: University of Guelph scientist Dr. Ernesto Guzman. |
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Tiny pollinators, the real workers of the insect world, can be seen busily collecting nectar and pollen from the colourful spring blossoms. |
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A review of climate change impacts on pollinators identified the information needed to assess national vulnerabilities. |
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By acting as pollinators and seed distributors they contribute to ecosystem structure and function. |
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Speaking during the peak pollination period last week, Moran says the lower number of bees has not meant a dramatic drop in pollinators. |
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These bees, which also live in closed spaces, prove to be excellent pollinators, which could present an interest in the zones of fruit growing. |
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Reduced competition for pollinators may be one advantage of early flowering, but for many of these spring ephemerals, time is the most pressing issue. |
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Like all species they make vital contributions to the functioning of ecosystems in which they live, be it as pollinators, seed distributors, food sources for other animals and many others. |
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Leading scientists in France and Germany have estimated the economic value of pollinators at EUR 150 billion per annum and the damage at up to EURÂ 310 billion if we lost bees as pollinators. |
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While the establishment of native flowering plants in the ground cover may increase the population of native pollinators such as the bumble bee it would be wise to use honey bee colonies as an insurance for good pollination. |
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He noted that bats were a source of considerable diversity, that they were important pollinators and seed distributors, and also were often indicators of deteriorating environmental conditions. |
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The same long, cool spring that kept my basil from germinating was perfect for pollinators like bees and syrphids and little wasps, which came out with the sun and visited just about every blossom. |
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Orchard mason bees are also used as supplemental pollinators in commercial orchards. |
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In addition, pollination experiments showed that fruit set of T. sinense in natural population was limited by pollinators, and there is no agamospermy. |
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To encourage bumble bees and other pollinators to visit your backyard, you can plant a variety of local native plants that vary in colour, shape and blooming season. |
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By attracting specific types or species of pollinators, plants can increase the chances that their pollen reaches another flower of the same species. |
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Many consider bumble bees to be the most important group of pollinators. |
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We need to restore and may even have to rebuild ecosystems, where clean water and air are delivered, where pollinators thrive, where soil fertility is recycled. |
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Heat generated by other aroids is thought to volatilize odorants that attract pollinators. |
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The voraciousness of flower beetles demonstrates the futility of enticing insect pollinators solely with such an indispensable material as pollen. |
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Some plants, for example, have coevolved with particular pollinators. |
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Early spring growth confers a number of advantages, including relative lack of competition for pollinators, and lack of deciduous shading. |
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During the flowering each season, apple growers often utilize pollinators to carry pollen. |
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Bumblebee queens are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators. |
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Caudicles or stipes hold the pollinia to the viscidium, a sticky pad which sticks the pollinia to the body of pollinators. |
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In 1969, the forestry industry stopped using DDT to control a spruce budworm outbreak, but switched to the insecticide fenitrothion, which is highly toxic to pollinators. |
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This find is the first evidence of fossilised orchids to date and shows insects were active pollinators of orchids then. |
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However, even on the Lappish fells, there are a whole swarm of bees who act as pollinators, attracted to Lapland lousewort by its rose-like scent. |
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Instead, the tall flower stalks probably help raise the flowers to a height where they are noticeable to pollinators. |
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Molecular divergence in allopatric Ceratosolen pollinators of geographically widespread Ficus species. |
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Some species of Moraceae are pollinated by insects, particularly the figs, where complex interdependencies between the plants and their insect pollinators have evolved. |
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Let an area of your property grow wild to provide corridors for pollinator movement, native species of plants to grow, and nesting sites for pollinators. |
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Insects are critical components of boreal food webs and play important ecological roles as pollinators and decomposers, yet as a group, they are among the most poorly understood organisms in the boreal region. |
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Several species of yucca moth, for example, have evolved from pollinators of the yucca plant to non-pollinating seedeaters. |
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Mountain mint, sunflowers, native holly, sweet pepper bush and goldenrod are all great for pollinators, Tallamy said. |
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Ornamental crab apple trees are good pollinators. |
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Entomophilous flowers form the food resources for insect pollinators. |
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Their long proboscis, or mouthpart, makes them important pollinators, since many plants may only be pollinated by hawkmoths. |
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Seeds blow into Florida from the Caribbean area where normal pollinators exist, but the plants that survive tend to be self-pollinated because they lack their customary pollinators, which are not found in Florida. |
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Individual flowers are rather unimpressive, but the inflorescence as a whole is pretty and attracts beetles, flies, hymenopterous insects and true bugs as pollinators. |
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Another example is that of cauliflory, which Stebbins attributed to avoiding competition for pollinators in rainforest conditions. |
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Eischen, at the ARS Honey Bee Research Unit in Weslaco, Texas, has contributed three years' worth of data about squash pollinators of the Rio Grande Valley. |
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Observations were conducted on a single day when 90 inflorescences were randomly chosen and covered with a fine mesh bag at between 0700 h and 0800 h to exclude pollinators. |
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These aromatics are usually secondary metabolites produced by plants as protection against herbivores, infections, as well as to attract pollinators. |
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Self-compatible plants that cannot autogamously self-pollinate highly rely on pollinators for reproduction, such nectar robbing behaviours may affect plant reproduction. |
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At its base the fragrances which attract pollinators are formed. |
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