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Does the odor of the arctic poppy attract insects that pollinate the flower?
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∙ 11y ago
Yes it does attracts the insects.
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What attracts insects?
Both, depending on the bug. Some bugs are attracted to heat, like sandflies, and some others are attracted to light, like moths. There are even more things that bugs are attracted to. Mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide, a gas that you produce by breathing out!
What is the purpose of the specialized cells that produce strong odors from the corpse flower?
Corpse flowers are pollinated by flies. The smell that is generated is used to attract the flies for pollination; much as nectar in other plants is used to attract bees and butterflies
Attract pollinators to the flower?
Petals attract pollinators.
How does the location of nectaries help to pollinate the flower?
Pollinators are attracted to the nectar. When they are feeding on the nectar, they pick up pollen and/or deposit pollen. The location of the nectaries is such as to make the pollinators touch the pollen to pick it up or to deposit it.
What are the structures that attract insects and other pollinators to a flower?
The pistil is the part of the flower that has the pollen on it.
Flowers often smell pleasant because?
Flowers often smell pleasant and sweet because they are trying to attract insects. Insects will often follow the scent of the flower and then pollinate the flower.
What do insects get from flower to pollinate?
they can get nectar
How does a dahlia flower pollinate?
Dahlias pollinate with the wind, by insects and by humans.
Do flies pollinate flowers?
Flies and all other insects that fly from flower to flower will help to pollinate.
Why are most flower brightly colored?
To attract birds and bees to help in the plants pollination.
What is the main function of the flower within the plant?
Flowers attract insects and birds to feed on the nectar and incidentally transfer pollen between flowers to pollinate them so they can reproduce.
What might happen if the same insects then goes to another flower?
It will pollinate the second flower.
Why the refflesia flower has a bad smell?
To attract flies to it so they can pollinate.
How does horrible smell accomplish the carrion flower?
The smell is used to attract flies which pollinate the flower.
Why are flowers generally colorful and fragrant?
Flowers' colours and scents are a sort of advertising, and are primarily to attract insects -- particularly bees -- to come and take nectar. In the process of doing so they will transfer pollen from one flower to the next, thus fertilizing the flower enabling it to produce seed and, where appropriate, fruit. Without pollination there would be no next generation of flowers.
What is the purpose of smell in a flower?
The smell attracts the insects that pollinate the flowers.
What are the function of the flower of a plant?
To attract the pollinators required to pollinate the plant.The flower is the reproductive unit of a plant.
