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Male Stick Insects will clutch to the back of a female and will join genital openings at the end of each of their tails/abdomens in order for the male to fertilize the eggs. A male stick insect will stay 'joined' to the female like this for weeks or months at a time, only leaving her briefly to eat. It has been known that some males become so attached to a female they will practically starve themselves to the point of death.
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What are two ways that pollen grain can get to the stigma of the pistil?
bees, wind, birds, bats, moths, butterflies, human using a brush, insects.
What is the adaptive value of the flowers to plants?
The flower attracts a pollinator to the plant, which helps spread the pollen to a different plant, in order to fertilize it.
How does insect pollination occur?
Insects typically pollinate flowers as they move from plant to plant searching for food. Many flowers produce nectar, a sugary liquid that many insects eat. When an insect lands on a flower to feed, pollen grains stick to its body. As the insect moves to another flower of the same species, these pollen grains are transferred to the flower's stigma and pollination occurs. Perhaps the most well-known pollinator insects are bees and butterflies, but wasps, moths, flies and beetles can be pollinators as well.
How does pollen get fromone flower to the next for pollination?
Wind moves pollen for some plants like grass and corn. Animal pollinators move pollen for many flowering plants.
Explain how animals aid plant reproduction through pollen transport?
Lets start with some definitions- pollen is the male reproductive bit that joins with a female ova of a plant and grows into a fruit that contains seeds, that can grow into plants. Parent plants produce more plants in the process of reproduction. Some plants have male flowers only on male plants and ova only on female plants. Tough for the plants when they try to reproduce because plants can't move the pollen to the ova. So plants need something else to pick up the pollen and place it in the ova. One way this happens is when pollen is carried by wind and floats onto ovas on other plants. Another problem for reproduction happens when the male flower and female flowers are on the same plant, but placed so that pollen does not fall onto a flower with a ripe ova, or pollen is ripe before the ova is ripe and able to be fertilized. Animals such as bees and other insects are attracted to the sweet smell deep in the flower, go in to get the nectar and wind up covered with pollen as they back out. As the bee goes to another flower, the pollen is scraped off as the bee descends into the narrowing flower. When a bee goes from a flower with pollen and delivers the pollen to a ripe ova, it helps the plant reproduce. Also pollen carried from one plant to another plant helps to mix the genes from each plant to the rest of the plants. Its not just bugs that do this. Pollen is also scraped onto the hair or feathers of animals passing by and is carried to other plants where it may fertilize an ova. Without something to move pollen from one plant to another, many plants could not make more plants.
How do insects move pollen from flower to flower?
It sticks to them.
Where do pollinated flowers come from?
Flowers are pollinated (fertilized) by insects unwittingly transferring pollen from one flower to another as they move from flower to flower drinking or collecting nectar.
How do bees move pollen?
When an insect like bee's lands on a flower, pollen sticks to it's legs. So when an insect moves to another flower pollen gets on that flower and so on and so on as the insect moves from one plant to another.
How does the structure of the pollen grains helps it move from one flower to another?
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How does the structure of the pollen grain helps it to move from one flower to another?
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What is the effect of bees?
As the bees (and other flying insects) move from flower to flower, they drink the nectar and carry pollen on their bodies from flower to flower. It is this cross-pollination that fertilises each flower and the flower can then produce seed for next season flowers.
How can pollen be transfered from plant to plant?
POLLEN GRAINS ARE TRANSFERRED BY 3 METHODS: 1. BY WIND 2. BY INSECTS 3. BY WATER. it depends on the type of plant. some plants can be insect pollinated and some wind and some that are located near a river by water
What is the effect of bees and flower?
As the bees (and other flying insects) move from flower to flower, they drink the nectar and carry pollen on their bodies from flower to flower. It is this cross-pollination that fertilises each flower and the flower can then produce seed for next season flowers.
What is the effect of bees on flowers?
As the bees (and other flying insects) move from flower to flower, they drink the nectar and carry pollen on their bodies from flower to flower. It is this cross-pollination that fertilises each flower and the flower can then produce seed for next season flowers.
What are two ways that pollen grain can get to the stigma of the pistil?
bees, wind, birds, bats, moths, butterflies, human using a brush, insects.
What is the adaptive value of the flowers to plants?
The flower attracts a pollinator to the plant, which helps spread the pollen to a different plant, in order to fertilize it.
What are flowers and how do they work?
Flowers are reproductive organs - they contain stamens (male parts of the flower, loaded with pollen) and stigmas (female parts of the flower, receptive to pollen from another plant of the same species). Plants cannot move, and so they rely on other creatures - normally insects - to move their pollen for them. The insects must be attracted to the flowers so that they will pollinate them. Most of the time, the flowers produce nectar to attract the insects. The bright petals are an advertisement, telling the insects that there is nectar or edible pollen available. Yellow flowers tend to attract insects, while red catches the eyes of most birds. The petals are coloured so brightly because of pigments that are relatively easy for the plant to produce. These pigments can be all colours and combinations of them make the flowers colourful.
