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Would the blue banded bee suck nectar from the lantana?
The Lantana is visited by bees, and butterflies and is even planted to be used as a "honey plant" or for "butterfly gardening". Some species of birds will eat the bloom of the Lantana. The Blue banded Bee usually collects most of it's nectar from blue blooming flowers, they don't "eat" flowers, including the Lantana.For more details, please see the sites listed below.
How many kilometers can a bee travel on 1 gram of honey?
They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honey stomachs.The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey.
What helps to attract pollinators?
all flowers and plants who need pollinating contain nectar. the nectar is very sweet and attracts insects who go to the centre and collect the nectar. while they are collecting the necar, pollen sticks to their bodys and they carry it away to another plant.
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
How many butterflies are in a swarm of butterflies?
For honeybees, probably around 20,000 workers and one queen, but if it is a secondary swarm, or cast, there could be far fewer.
Do butterflies use their tongues to suck up nectar?
They use their tongues to suck nectar
Can butterflies chew their food?
Butterflies do not chew their food, but eat by their proboscis or tongue. The proboscis helps the butterflies to suck the nectar from flowers.
How do butterflies eat flowers?
Actually, butterflies don't eat flowers. Caterpillars do. The butterflies use their proboscis to suck the nectar out of the center of the flower.
Are butterflies predators?
no because they don't hunt a smaller animal, they just suck nectar.
How do animals like bees and butterflies sips the nectar from the flowers?
i think they have a long tongue to suck it
Why do flower smell nice?
so it could attract incects such as butterflies to suck its nectar
What does a monaren butterfly eat?
Well they eat the same as all butterflies! They eat sap off trees and flower nectar. All butterflies eat the same. and they drink water
Do butterflies chew?
Butterflies do not have teeth so therefore they cannot chew. They exist on a liquid diet of nectar and water that they suck up through a tube called a proboscis.
What do butterflies eat and what mouth or body part is used to get their food?
they eat nectar and they have mouths like people.
What does a butterfly need to survive?
by eating nectar from the flowers
Can butterfly chew why?
Butterflies suck up nectar from flowers using their tube-like mouth part. They do not have teeth, so can't chew!
How does a butterfy eat?
Butterflies use a long tube-like structure called a proboscis to suck up nectar from flowers. They unfurl their proboscis and insert it into the flower to extract the sweet liquid. Some butterflies also feed on other sources such as rotting fruits, tree sap, or animal droppings.
