0
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why does the yucca moth and the yucca plant live together?
The yucca moth lives on the yucca plant and does no travel to other flowers or plants. Adult moths live inside the flowers and the larval stages are all completed inside the yucca fruits as they develop.
What is the difference between moth and a yucca moth?
The yucca moth is associated with the yucca, a flowering plant, mostly found in Mexico and the southwestern United States. When mature, yucca pollen grains form sticky masses, which pregnant female yucca moths collect with long appendages (called maxillary palpi) from their mouth region, form into balls, and transport. When ready to lay her eggs, she crawls into another flower, and lays her eggs inside of an ovary of the flower. She then climbs to the top of the ovary, and presses the pollen into the central stigmatic depression. In doing so, she ensures the pollination of the flower in which she has laid her egg. The germinating pollen grains fertilize hundreds of immature seeds inside of the plant, some of which will provide food for the larvae as it matures. Both the yucca plant and moth are dependent on this pollination regime for survival.
What is the yucca moths role?
Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae.
What animal is a symbiotic relationship to a yucca?
It's a mutualistic relationship. The yucca plant (Mexico, Caribbean and Southern US) can't pollinate itself to grow more seeds. The yucca moth pollinates the plant and lays its eggs inside the plant. When the moth larvae hatch, they feed on the seeds of the yucca plant, but the plant only lets a certain number grow, so that they don't eat all the seeds. So by pollinating the plant, the moth develops food for its larvae and the plant as well as the moth can survive and continue. And the adult moths emerge from their underground cocoons exactly when the yucca plants are in flower, in early summer.
What is the scientific name or taxonomic classification of the Yucca Moths?
The yucca moths belong to the family Prodoxidae in the order Lepidoptera. The genus Tegeticula and Parategeticula are the two primary genera of yucca moths.
What type of environment does a yucca live in?
A desert.
Why do the yucca plant and yucca moth live together?
The female yucca moth chooses to go to nearby yucca plant in order to get the pollen from the plant. The moth then starts to lay eggs in the large flowers of the yucca plant.
By attaching themselves to the body of a whale yucca moths can be feed while moving through nutrient rich water true or false?
false
How many people live in yucca valley?
21,980
Does the soap tree live in other deserts?
The soap tree yucca (Yucca elata) occurs in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts.
Do crabs eat moths?
No , cause moths fly and they do not live in water crabs do so the answer is No
What advantages and disadvantages of a Yucca plant and yucca moth?
the yucca moth benefits with the yucca plant so the yucca moth can get food from the yucca plant .
