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they carry pollen from flower to flower.
While a hummingbird is sipping nectar from a plant, it is also cross pollinating the plant as it passes from flower to flower.
It is a mutual relationship. The flower needs the hummingbird to drink nectar and get a dusting with the flower's pollen, so ensuring there is cross-pollination as the bird moves from flower to flower.
It is a mutual relationship. The flower needs the hummingbird to drink nectar and get a dusting with the flower's pollen, so ensuring there is cross-pollination as the bird moves from flower to flower.
When the hummingbird flies from flower to flower some pollen falls on its head and wings. The hummingbirds gets its nectar and the flower is pollinated. It is a win/win. Hummingbirds play an important role in the pollination of flowers.
Pollination
Self pollination is when a flower pollinates itself with its own pollen and cross pollination is when a flower uses another flower's pollen.
Hummingbirds fly from flower to flower, sticking their beaks into the center to take sips of nectar. While sipping nectar, hummingbirds are inadvertently transporting pollen grains from previously sipped flowers. The process results in the cross pollination of different flowers, through the help of the hummingbird. Basically: Hummingbirds help flowers pollinate each other, which allows flowers to reproduce.
An example of simultaneous change between a flower and its pollinator is the relationship between the hummingbird and certain tubular flowers. Over time, some flower species have evolved longer, more tubular shapes to accommodate the hummingbird's long beak, while hummingbirds have developed specialized feeding mechanisms to access nectar from these flowers. This mutual adaptation enhances the efficiency of pollination and nectar feeding, benefiting both the flower and the hummingbird.
Pollination occurs when the pollens from the anther of a flower is transferred to the stigma of the same or another flower. This is of two types- Self-Pollination(when the pollens from the anther of a flower are transferred to the stigma of the same flower or plant) and Cross-Pollination( when it gets transferred to the stigma of flower on another plant). Pollination is brought about by the help of various factors like insects, birds,wind, water.
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The process of pollination from same flower is called self-pollination. the process of pollination from another flower of same breed is called cross-pollination.